Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Rush

Clockwork Angels

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Clean Slate
Idlewild Idlewild
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Diamond Eyes Deftones
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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