Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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Jerk At the End of the Line
1. Les Inrocks: 100 Best Albums of 2015

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best TV Shows of 2023 Judy Berman · Time
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Clean Slate
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
Mountainhead Jesse Armstrong
Francesca David Murray Quartet
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Idlewild Idlewild

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