Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Love Yes
1. Best Albums of 2016: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions
2. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Under the Radar

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sly Thom Zimny
Clean Slate
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Oracle Cate Marvin
Idlewild Idlewild
The Sunshine Place
Fingernails Christos Nikou
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Liars Sarah Manguso

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