Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Handfuls of Night
1. Albums of the Year 2019: Rough Trade
The Imperfect Sea
1. 50 Best Albums of 2017: Paste

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: The Podcast
Flesh David Szalay
XXX Danny Brown
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Getting Killed Geese
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Here Bas Devos
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
Dìdi Sean Wang
My Adventures with Superman

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