Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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by Aaron Lee Tasjan

Lists

The Best Albums of 2024: Chris Willman: Variety
Best Albums of 2024: Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez
False Lankum Lankum
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Looper Rian Johnson
Her Spike Jonze
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
House of Huawei Eva Dou

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