Year-End Lists

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

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The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NPR: NPR Music

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The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Weapons Zach Cregger
Babygirl Halina Reijn
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sinners Ryan Coogler
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Truly, Madly Stephen Galloway
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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