Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

Top 102 Albums of 2012: Robert Christgau: Barnes & Noble Review

50 Favorite Albums of 2012: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Flesh David Szalay
Evangelic Girl Is a Gun yeule
R.I.P. Actress
The Waldheim Waltz Ruth Beckermann
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Stubborn Persistent Illusions Do Make Say Think
King Coal Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Glimmer Kimberly Shannon Murphy with Genevieve Field
Burning Lee Chang-dong
XXX Danny Brown
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Five Seconds Flat Lizzy McAlpine
Articulate Rachel Kolb
Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt Curtis Harding

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