Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Glenn Kenny: RogerEbert.com: Top Ten Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Observations From A Crowded Room

by Joy Oladokun

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Consequence
The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top Ten Films of 2025 Glenn Kenny · RogerEbert.com
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Lowdown
Keeper of the Shepherd Hannah Frances
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Broker Hirokazu Kore-eda
Eddington Ari Aster
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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