Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Colin Dickey

Under the Eye of Power
- 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023: Washington Post
Ghostland
- 2016 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Weapons Zach Cregger
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Seer Swans
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Pillion Harry Lighton
Sinners Ryan Coogler

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