Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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1. The Best Movies of 2025: John Waters: New York: Vulture
- Top Ten Films of 2025: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021 Entertainment Weekly
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Antidote Karen Russell
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Rakshak Bloodywood
Outside Noise Ted Fendt

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