Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Eric Kohn: IndieWire: The Best Movies of 2020
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Laura Battle: Financial Times: Best Fiction of 2024
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Cymbals Eat Guitars

Pretty Years
Lose
1. Top 50 Albums of 2014: Treble
2. Top 140 Albums of 2014: Under the Radar
Lenses Alien
1. Top Albums of 2011: Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune: Sound Opinions
2. Albums of 2011: DIY

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Fiction of 2024 Laura Battle · Financial Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Movies of 2020 Eric Kohn · IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2023 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
25 Best Films of 2025 A.V. Club
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Nope Jordan Peele
Chromatica Lady Gaga
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Music for Shape-Shifters: Field Recordings from the Amazonian Lowlands, 1981-1985 Wakuénai (Curripaco)
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Radu Jude
Testing A$AP Rocky
Hard Truths Mike Leigh
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Weapons Zach Cregger
Race the Night Ash
BREAD Sofi Tukker
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Clearing Locrian

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