Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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When Evil Lurks

by Demián Rugna

Lists

The 50 Best Movies of 2023: Polygon
Best Movies of 2023: Sean Fennessey

Top 10 LGBTQ Films of 2023: Steve Erickson: GCN
Best Films of 2023: Spectrum Culture

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Predators David Osit
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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