Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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by Dan Michaelson

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50 Best Albums of 2012: Mojo

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
XXX Danny Brown
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still Hot Mulligan
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Getting Killed Geese
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Flashlight Susan Choi
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Inside Scientology Janet Reitman

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