Year-End Lists

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

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IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best International TV Shows of 2024 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Dìdi Sean Wang
You Didn't See Nothin
XXX Danny Brown
Civil War Alex Garland
Eddington Ari Aster
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
Sicario Denis Villeneuve
In the Dark
Tár Todd Field
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Wander/Wonder Balam Acab

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