Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Palace of Marvels (queered pitch)

by Marcus Schmickler

Lists

Favorite Albums of 2011: Dennis Cooper

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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