Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The Bitter Southerner

Lists

Best Southern Albums of 2025
Best Southern Albums of 2024
Best Southern Albums of 2023
Best Southern Albums of 2022

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski

Trending Works

Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
I Saw the TV Glow Jane Schoenbrun
From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art Shinichi Atobe
Cool Planet Guided by Voices
Communion Park Jiha
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Last Days of Budapest Adam LeBor
Parasite Bong Joon-ho
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Hata Unacheza: Sub-Saharan Acoustic Guitar & String Music, ca. 1960s various artists
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
The Open Book Sessions Ronica & The Blazing Stars

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