Year-End Lists

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

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2021: No Depression
50 Best Albums of 2021: Exclaim

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Oracle Cate Marvin
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
The Sunshine Place
Sly Thom Zimny
Clean Slate
Diamond Eyes Deftones
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Liars Sarah Manguso

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