Year-End Lists

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

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Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2011
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Best Films of 2022 Florence Almozini
Top 50 Films of 2020 Village Voice Film Poll
Top 50 Films of 2019 Village Voice Film Poll

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Films of 2022 David Sims · Atlantic
50 Best Albums of 2012 Mojo
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
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 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
50 Best Albums of 2011 Paste
Best Movies of 2023 Alissa Wilkinson · New York Times

Trending Works

The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
20 Days in Mariupol Mstyslav Chernov
XXX Danny Brown
TransAtlantic Colum McCann
No Exit Damien Power
Andor
Mines Menomena
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
Brat Charli XCX
Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Questlove
Both/And Denne Michele Norris (editor)
Mrs. Fletcher
Alpha Julia Ducournau

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