Year-End Lists

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

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Trending

Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Jake Coyle: AP: Top 10 Movies of 2014
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Old Apparatus

Compendium
- 42 Best Albums of 2013: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker
4 EPs (Derren, Harem, Alfur, Realise)
- 40 Best Albums of 2012: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker

Trending Lists

20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Brendan Menapace · Esquire
Top Ten Films of 2025 Mike D’Angelo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 40 Albums of 2025 Decibel
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020 Hip Hop Golden Age
Top 100 Albums of 2023 Under the Radar
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
The 50 Best Films of 2024 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Songs of Praise Shame
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Cranberry Hovvdy
Infantilised Keith J. Hayward
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
Animated Violence Mild Blanck Mass
All At Once Screaming Females
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
Holy Ghost Modern Baseball
You’re the Worst
Blackstar David Bowie
A Brief Introduction To Unnatural Lightyears Olivia Wilde
Music For People In Trouble Susanne Sundfør

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