Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Newfound Oxygen
1. Favorite Albums 2023: Bob Boilen
Take The Corners Gently
1. Top 10 Albums of 2021: Bob Boilen: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Albums of 2025 Obscure Sound
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
75 Best Albums of 2023 Mojo

Trending Works

To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
The Righteous Gemstones
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Tourist / Sleeper Seams
The Book of My Lives Aleksandar Hemon
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing Hu Anyan
First Cow Kelly Reichardt
XXX Danny Brown
We Were Made Prey Kathryn Joseph
Sun Cat Power
Weapons Zach Cregger
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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