Year-End Lists

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

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

The 45 Best Albums of 2020: The Forty-Five

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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