Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Eric Kohn: IndieWire: The Best Movies of 2020
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Lists

The Best Films of 2020 A.V. Club
Top 10 Films of 2019 RogerEbert.com
Top 15 Films of 2018 A.V. Club
Top Ten Films of 2017 RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2020 Eric Kohn · IndieWire
Top 40 Albums of 2012 Jim DeRogatis · WBEZ · Sound Opinions
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone

Trending Works

I Want to Live My Life Stars Hollow
Nope Jordan Peele
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
One Deep River Mark Knopfler
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Radu Jude
Testing A$AP Rocky
Music for Shape-Shifters: Field Recordings from the Amazonian Lowlands, 1981-1985 Wakuénai (Curripaco)
Toho Sara 東方沙羅 Toho Sara
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Jinpa Pema Tseden
amor de encava WEED420
The Whole Thing Is Just There Young Jesus
Prima Donna Vince Staples
Hard Truths Mike Leigh

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