Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Salutations

by Conor Oberst

Lists

Dean's List 2017: Robert Christgau
Best Albums of 2017: Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Clean Slate
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Idlewild Idlewild
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
The Sunshine Place
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Sly Thom Zimny
Oracle Cate Marvin
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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