Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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1. Albums of 2021: Gorilla vs. Bear
Held
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- Favorites Albums of 2011: Altered Zones

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2019 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Hamnet Chloé Zhao
The Post Steven Spielberg
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Past Lives Celine Song
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Heavy Metal Cameron Winter
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa

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