Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2020
Consequence: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Top 25 Movies of 2012: Wesley Morris: Boston Globe
20 Favorite Films of 2012: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader

Trending Lists

The Best Records of 2024 Resident Advisor
Best Movies of 2020 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
Best Movies of 2020 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2022 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
The 35 Best Books of 2025 Adam Morgan · Esquire
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll

Trending Works

Tomboy Céline Sciamma
The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlic
Melancholia Lars von Trier
Essex Honey Blood Orange
An Oral History of Atlantis Ed Park
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
The Onania Club Tom Six
Half Living Things Alpha Wolf
Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
Live Forever Bartees Strange
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Unknown Man of Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy

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