Year-End Lists

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

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Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Best Albums of 2011: FasterLouder
Top 100 Albums of 2012: Austin Town Hall

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Albums of the Year 2025 Clash
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

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

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