Year-End Lists

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

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Thao & the Get Down Stay Down

Temple
1. Top 25 Albums of 2020: Magnet
2. Top 100 Albums of 2020: Under the Radar
A Man Alive
1. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Paste

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Revel in the Drama Ren Harvieu
The Dead Don't Hurt Viggo Mortensen
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Weapons Zach Cregger
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything Jane Wong
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
XXX Danny Brown
Open City Teju Cole
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Black is King Beyoncé

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