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 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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John Cale

Poptical Illusion
Mercy
M:FANS
1. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Quietus
Music for a New Society/M:FANS
1. 75 Best Albums of 2016: Uncut
Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood
1. Top 40 Albums of 2012: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions
2. 100 Favourite Albums of 2012: Drowned in Sound

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019 Wired UK
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Country Music Albums of 2025 Holler
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) Jesse Q. Sutanto
Hit Man Richard Linklater
Xenotaph Fallujah
The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Promises Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Pig Michael Sarnoski
Fargo
Her Spike Jonze
Box for Buddy, Box for Star This Is Lorelei
Pluribus
Dry Ground Burning Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós
Not Tight Domi and JD Beck

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