Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Earth to Dora
1. Our Top 100 Albums of 2020: Les Inrocks
The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
1. 51 Favourite Albums of 2014: Drowned in Sound

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Getting Killed Geese
Alpha Julia Ducournau
American Prison Shane Bauer
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman

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