Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Richard Youngs

CXXI
1. Albums of the Year 2021: Quietus
- Our Favorite Albums, 2021: Tone Glow

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
Morning Circle Basma al-Sharif
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Alpha Julia Ducournau
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
American Prison Shane Bauer
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie

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