Year-End Lists

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

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Ann Hornaday: Washington Post: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Maureen Corrigan: NPR: 10 Favorite Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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by Daniel Casimir

Lists

Our 50 Favourite Albums of 2021: Vinyl Factory

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post

Trending Works

The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Suspicious Minds
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
XXX Danny Brown
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
U R HERE Honesty
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
Adolescence
Paper Girl Beth Macy

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