Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Consequence: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
Carl Wilson: Slate: The 12 Best Albums of 2024
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1. Top 25 Books of 2019: Hyperallergic
- The 10 Best Books of 2019: Laura Miller: Slate

Trending Lists

The Ten Best Films of 2025 Jeffrey M. Anderson · Combustible Celluloid
Best Films of 2017 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Consequence
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
50 Best Released Films of 2011 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
The 12 Best Albums of 2024 Carl Wilson · Slate

Trending Works

The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki
Ears, Nose and Throat Kevin Jerome Everson
The Good Place
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Reading the Waves Lidia Yuknavitch
Cartoons Kit Schluter
Forged Prescriptions Tony O’Neill
The Errors Tour Brian Alan Ellis
Brat Charli XCX
Bottle It In Kurt Vile
The Squimbop Condition David Leo Rice

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