Year-End Lists

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

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NPR: Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Odd Numbers

The Oddyssey
- Best Albums of 2017: Jim Harrington: Mercury News

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Albums of 2025 NPR · NPR Music

Trending Works

Horse Money Pedro Costa
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Looper Rian Johnson
Ruth Kate Riley
Don't Tap the Glass Tyler, The Creator
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Fancy That PinkPantheress
Babes Pamela Adlon
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Margin Call J.C. Chandor
20 Cigarettes James Benning

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