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
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
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Prefab Sprout

I Trawl the Megahertz
- Favorite Music of 2019: Dennis Cooper
Crimson/Red

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2024 Economist

Trending Works

Diamond Eyes Deftones
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Liars Sarah Manguso
Oracle Cate Marvin
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Idlewild Idlewild
Clean Slate
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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