Year-End Lists

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

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2023: The Wire
Albums of the Year 2023: Quietus

The Best Of 2023: Jennifer Lucy Allan: Quietus
Our Favorite Albums, 2023: Tone Glow

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Pianoon Limpe Fuchs
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
555/666/777 Los Angeles
Getting Killed Geese
The Ministry of Time Kaliane Bradley
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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