Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Pastor's Paradox

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Lists

The 23 Best Albums of 2023: KCRW

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still Hot Mulligan
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
Boom Town Sam Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
hooke’s law KeiyaA
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Flashlight Susan Choi
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... Steven Pinker
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
Inside Scientology Janet Reitman

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