Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Dying Wish

Flesh Stays Together
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Kerrang!
Symptoms of Survival
1. 30 Best Albums of 2023: Revolver
Fragments of a Bitter Memory
1. 25 Best Albums of 2021: Revolver

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Movies Of 2021 Uproxx
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
The Sunshine Place
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Sly Thom Zimny
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Oracle Cate Marvin
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Idlewild Idlewild
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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