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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Into the Lair of the Sun God
1. 100 Favorite Metal Albums of the Decade: A.A. Dowd

Trending Lists

The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Resurrection Bi Gan
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Fear of a Black Universe Stephon Alexander
Feu Nekfeu
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be Nichole Perkins
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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