Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Top 40 Albums of 2020: Decibel
25 Best Albums of 2020: Revolver

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
False Lankum Lankum
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Alpha Julia Ducournau

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