Year-End Lists

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

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Helm

Axis
1. Albums of the Year 2021: Quietus
Chemical Flowers
- Favorite Music of 2019: Dennis Cooper
Olympic Mess
- 89 Favorite Albums of 2015: Sasha Frere-Jones
The Hollow Organ
1. Top 50 Albums of 2014: The Wire
Impossible Symmetry
1. 50 Best Albums of 2012: Fact
Cryptography
1. Top 50 Albums of 2011: The Wire

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Eddington Ari Aster
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
XXX Danny Brown
Elle Paul Verhoeven
Sticker NCT 127
Sicario Denis Villeneuve
And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies The Inward Circles
Crows In The Basilica Chuck Johnson
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
Civil War Alex Garland
The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra
Nosferatu Robert Eggers
The Beast Bertrand Bonello

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