Year-End Lists

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

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A.V. Club: The 25 Best Films of 2024
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2011
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by Carey Williams

Lists

My Favorite Movies of 2022: Sean Fennessey

Best Movies of 2022: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times
Top Ten Films of 2022: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid

Trending Lists

Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
50 Best Albums of 2011 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 TV Shows of the 2010s Consequence
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
Technically Acceptable Ethan Iverson
All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen
Who Is Government? Michael Lewis
The Serpent
Tomboy Panda Bear
Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
A Hologram for the King Tom Tykwer
The House That Jack Built Lars von Trier
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
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