Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid: The Ten Best Films of 2025
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Shemekia Copeland

Done Come Too Far
1. Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2022: No Depression
Uncivil War
1. The Best Albums of 2020: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
America's Child
- Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018: No Depression

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2016 Aaron Hillis · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Consequence
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2017 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Ten Best Films of 2025 Jeffrey M. Anderson · Combustible Celluloid
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture

Trending Works

The Good Place
Sourcebooks Peggy Ahwesh
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
The Squimbop Condition David Leo Rice
Idiocy Pierre Guyotat
The Errors Tour Brian Alan Ellis
Cartoons Kit Schluter
Never Let Me Go Placebo
Forged Prescriptions Tony O’Neill
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan
Reading the Waves Lidia Yuknavitch
Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener

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