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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Gorilla vs. Bear: Albums of 2025
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Christine Smallwood

The Life of the Mind
1. The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021: Annabel Gutterman: Time

Trending Lists

The 23 Best TV Shows of 2023 Daily Beast
Albums of 2025 Gorilla vs. Bear
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
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
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

The Sunshine Place
Sly Thom Zimny
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Idlewild Idlewild
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Oracle Cate Marvin
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward

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