Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Top 100 Albums of 2022: Under the Radar

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Fingernails Christos Nikou
The Sunshine Place
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Idlewild Idlewild
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Sly Thom Zimny
Liars Sarah Manguso
Clean Slate

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