Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Vessel

Queen of Golden Dogs
Punish, Honey
1. 51 Favourite Albums of 2014: Drowned in Sound
Order of Noise
1. Top 20 Albums of 2012: Resident Advisor
2. The Top 100 Albums of 2012: Crack Magazine

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

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

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