Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Best Pop Music of 2011: Kitty Empire: Observer

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Motherland Julia Ioffe
Zbig Edward Luce
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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