Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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25 Best Albums of 2017: Jon Caramanica: New York Times

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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