Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2020
Owen Gleiberman: Variety: The Best Movies of 2025
Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
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My Struggle

Book Five

by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Lists

100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle
Best Fiction of 2016: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 35 Best Books of 2025 Adam Morgan · Esquire
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2022 Pitchfork
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The Best Movies of 2025 Ty Burr
Best Movies of 2020 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2014 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers
Cemetery of Splendor Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlic
The Unknown Man of Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy
It's a Sin
Hinterlands Scott Barley
Live Forever Bartees Strange
Marriage Story Noah Baumbach
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Comedian Tom Shkolnik
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
In Transit David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
Buried
The Onania Club Tom Six

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