Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The Skull Defekts

Peer Amid
1. 25 Records Loved in 2011: Jason Diamond: Impose
- Top 20 of 2011: Raven Sings the Blues

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Weapons Zach Cregger
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
World’s Strongest Man Gaz Coombes
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier

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