Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
A.V. Club: Year in Film 2011
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- The 60 Best Albums of 2024: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
50 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR · NPR Music
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Year in Film 2011 A.V. Club
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2011 Fly
The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade Matt Patches · Polygon
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 100 Albums of 2014 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Blackstar David Bowie
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Collapse Aphex Twin
Counter-Intelligence Robert Hannigan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Every Open Eye Chvrches
Tip of the Sphere Cass McCombs
On the Beach at Night Alone Hong Sang-soo
Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Billie Eilish
Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
Into It with Sam Sanders
Devil Is Fine Zeal & Ardor
Testing A$AP Rocky

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