Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times: 20 Best Movies of 2012
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024
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by Cass McCombs

Lists

Best Albums of 2011: Obscure Sound
Top 50 Albums of 2011: Q

Trending Lists

Best Fiction of 2025 Maria Crawford · Financial Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
20 Best Movies of 2012 Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s Billboard
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Albums of the Year 2025 Quietus
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2023 Jonathan Rosenbaum · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club

Trending Works

Nope Jordan Peele
Pacifiction Albert Serra
Vertières I, II, III Louise Botkay
Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt
Sex Education
Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
The English Hugo Blick
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Son of Saul László Nemes
Barbie Greta Gerwig
All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen
Crimes of the Future David Cronenberg
Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau

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