Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Joy Guidry

Five Prayers
1. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
- The 45 Best Albums of 2025: Vogue

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Boom Town Sam Anderson
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Weapons Zach Cregger
XXX Danny Brown
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Antidote Karen Russell

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