Year-End Lists

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

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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80 Best Albums of 2013: Uncut

2013 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Sunshine Place
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Liars Sarah Manguso
Idlewild Idlewild
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sly Thom Zimny
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Oracle Cate Marvin
Fingernails Christos Nikou
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Clean Slate

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