Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 10 Movies of 2011 Dana Stevens · Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Beginners Mike Mills
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman
Looper Rian Johnson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
Civil War Alex Garland
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
Getting Killed Geese

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