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
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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by Jamila Wignot

Lists

Best Films of 2021: Lovia Gyarkye: Hollywood Reporter

Best Films of 2021: Passerby

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Favorite Novels of 2021 Electric Lit
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
The Sunshine Place
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Clean Slate
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Idlewild Idlewild
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Oracle Cate Marvin
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Liars Sarah Manguso

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