Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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23 Best Albums of 2018: Atlantic

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Clean Slate
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Liars Sarah Manguso
Fingernails Christos Nikou
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs

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