Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Michael Sicinski: Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025
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by Jess Walter

Lists

Top 10 Books of 2012: Salon

100 Notable Books of 2012: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Maestro Bradley Cooper
Deep Water Adrian Lyne
Interview with the Vampire
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
A Very English Scandal
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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