Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Natalie Morales

Lists

The 50 Best Movies of 2021: Paste
The Best Movies of 2021: Nick Schager: Esquire

Best Films of 2021: Lovia Gyarkye: Hollywood Reporter
My Top 10 Movies of 2021: Maureen Ryan

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win

Trending Works

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Moderation Elaine Castillo
Let's Rock The Black Keys
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinister Grift Panda Bear
Text Me When You Get Home Kayleen Schaefer
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Territory of Light Yuko Tsushima
Emails I Can't Send Sabrina Carpenter
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Eternity, In Your Arms Creeper
Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron
Nickel Boys RaMell Ross
Middle Jesse Welles

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