Year-End Lists

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

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Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Ten Films of 2022 Clémence Polès Farhang
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2022 Tomris Laffly · RogerEbert.com
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top Ten Films of 2022 Brian Darr · Senses of Cinema · Senses of Cinema World Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2022 Cinema Scope
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Top Tens 2022 Fighting in the War Room

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.