Year-End Lists

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

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Michael Sicinski: Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025
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by Tanya Tagaq

Lists

Dean's List 2019: Robert Christgau

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
25 Best Films of 2018 David Ehrlich
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Parasite Bong Joon-ho
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Maestro Bradley Cooper
A Very English Scandal
Deep Water Adrian Lyne
Interview with the Vampire

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