Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

50 Best Albums of 2021: NPR: NPR Music

Top 10 Albums of 2021: Carl Wilson: Slate
Our Favorite Albums, 2021: Tone Glow

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2022 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

Call Me by Your Name Luca Guadagnino
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Adults
Black Box
Maps to the Stars David Cronenberg
When We Were Birds Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Wild Houses Colin Barrett
Because the Boss Belongs to Us
Long Story Short
Trainwreck Judd Apatow
Top Doll Karen McCarthy Woolf
Crossroads Jonathan Franzen
The Souvenir Joanna Hogg

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