Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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by Daniel Bachman

Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2022: The Wire

Our Favorite Albums, 2022: Tone Glow

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Clean Slate
Idlewild Idlewild
Liars Sarah Manguso
The Sunshine Place
Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Diamond Eyes Deftones
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas

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