Year-End Lists

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

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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John Luther Adams: Become Desert

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Lists

25 Best Albums of 2019: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Albums of the Year 2025 Clash
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

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

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