Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: Top 11 Films of 2012
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2018
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2023
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Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s Billboard
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2024 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2018 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online

Trending Works

Red Rooms Pascal Plante
Burning Lee Chang-dong
Sour Soul BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah
$ad Boyz 4 Life II Junior H
DX Friendzone
A Psalm for Emily Salvi Nerina Pallot
Sudan Archives Sudan Archives
Earthling Eddie Vedder
A Better Ghost Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
Trifle Lone Taxidermist
Synonyms Nadav Lapid
Pauline Kael Brian Kellow
Blackstar David Bowie
Cry Sugar Hudson Mohawke

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