Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The Heliocentrics

Infinity of Now
- Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade
A World of Masks
- Top Ten Albums of 2017: Stranger

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Souleymane's Story Boris Lojkine
Magic, Alive! McKinley Dixon
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Asako I & II Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
XXX Danny Brown
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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