Year-End Lists

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

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Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times: 20 Best Movies of 2012
A.V. Club: The 25 Best Films of 2024
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Here Comes the Devil
- The 60 Best Albums of 2022: Josh Terry
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1. Top 50 Albums of 2017: Brooklyn Vegan
2. Top 50 Releases of 2017: The Alternative

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
20 Best Movies of 2012 Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times
Best Fiction of 2025 Maria Crawford · Financial Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Albums of the Year 2025 Quietus
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024 Washington Post

Trending Works

Sex Education
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
Vertières I, II, III Louise Botkay
Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino
Nope Jordan Peele
Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
The Chronology of Water Kristen Stewart
Spotlight Tom McCarthy
Son of Saul László Nemes
Demolished Thoughts Thurston Moore

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