Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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1. Top 50 Albums of 2022: The Wire
- The Best Music of 2022: Jennifer Lucy Allan: Quietus
- The Best Music of 2022: Steve Erickson: GCN

Trending Lists

The Best Movies of 2020 Eric Kohn · IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 40 Albums of 2012 Jim DeRogatis · WBEZ · Sound Opinions
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2024 Economist

Trending Works

Music for Shape-Shifters: Field Recordings from the Amazonian Lowlands, 1981-1985 Wakuénai (Curripaco)
Toho Sara 東方沙羅 Toho Sara
Jinpa Pema Tseden
One Deep River Mark Knopfler
Aura Reworks Hatis Noit
Hard Truths Mike Leigh
I Want to Live My Life Stars Hollow
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Radu Jude
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Whole Thing Is Just There Young Jesus
amor de encava WEED420
Nope Jordan Peele
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Prima Donna Vince Staples

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