Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2024
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Lust for Life, Or: 'How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story'
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1. Albums of the Year 2024: Dork
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1. 51 Best Albums of 2022: Gigwise
2. The Best Albums of 2022: No Ripcord

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Weapons Zach Cregger
Last Summer Catherine Breillat
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
The Holdovers Alexander Payne
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Fragments for Venus Alice Diop
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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