Year-End Lists

A hand-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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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The Best Movies of 2021 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2019 Wall Street Journal
Best Film of 2018 Wall Street Journal
10 Best Films of 2017 Wall Street Journal

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Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2011 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
25 Best Albums of the 2010s Revolver
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Black Bag Steven Soderbergh
Be the Cowboy Mitski
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Presence Steven Soderbergh
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Moneyball Bennett Miller
Impersonator Majical Cloudz
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Tiger’s Wife Téa Obreht

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