Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The Best Albums of 2025 Greg Kot
The Best Albums of 2025 Jim DeRogatis
Best Albums of 2024 Jim DeRogatis
Best Albums of 2024 Greg Kot
The Best Albums of 2023 Greg Kot
The Best Albums of 2023 Jim DeRogatis
The Best Albums of 2022 Greg Kot
The Best Albums of 2022 Jim DeRogatis
The Best Albums of 2021 Jim DeRogatis
The Best Albums of 2021 Greg Kot
The Best Albums of 2020 Jim DeRogatis
The Best Albums of 2020 Greg Kot
The Best Albums of 2019 Jim DeRogatis
The Best Albums of 2019 Greg Kot
Best Albums of 2018 Greg Kot
Best Albums of 2018 Jim DeRogatis
10 Favorite Albums of 2017 Greg Kot
The Best Albums of 2017 Jim DeRogatis
Best Albums of 2016 Jim DeRogatis
Top Albums of 2016 Greg Kot
Top 20 Albums of 2015 Greg Kot
40 Favorite Albums of 2015 Jim DeRogatis
Top 40 Albums of 2014 Jim DeRogatis
Top 20 Albums of 2014 Greg Kot
The Best Albums of 2013 Greg Kot
The Best Albums of 2013 Jim DeRogatis
Top 40 Albums of 2012 Jim DeRogatis
Top 10 Albums of 2012 Greg Kot
40 Favorite Albums of 2011 Jim DeRogatis
Top Albums of 2011 Greg Kot

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Inside Scientology Janet Reitman
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
XXX Danny Brown
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Results Andrew Bujalski
Glow On Turnstile
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst

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