Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams

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Lists

The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters
80 Best Albums of 2025: Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Slant

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best TV Shows & Mini-Series of the Decade The Playlist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Movies of 2011 Dana Stevens · Slate
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Civil War Alex Garland
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
From Ground Zero
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Looper Rian Johnson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman
Beginners Mike Mills
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
Getting Killed Geese

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