Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Favorite Albums of 2025: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Rolling Stone

The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
The Antidote Karen Russell
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Rakshak Bloodywood
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel

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