Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Treble
Top 55 Releases of 2023: The Alternative

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Audition Katie Kitamura
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Flesh David Szalay
The Antidote Karen Russell
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Boom Town Sam Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra

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