Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Saint Abdullah

Inshallahlaland
1. 100 Favorite Albums of 2022: Hanif Abdurraqib
Mechanical Flirtations
1. Top 50 Albums of 2019: The Wire

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

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

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