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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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2022 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Weapons Zach Cregger
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
L'Aventura Sophie Letourneur
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Alpha Julia Ducournau
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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