Year-End Lists

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

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Linnea Nugent

Song of Frozen Lake
- Twenty-One Experimental Films That Defined 2024: Michael Sicinski

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
37 Best Movies of 2015 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

-io Circuit Des Yeux
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Collapsed in Sunbeams Arlo Parks
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
hexed! aya
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang

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