Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
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1. Top 40 Albums of 2022: Decibel
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1. 50 Best Albums of 2020: Exclaim
2. Top 40 Albums of 2020: Decibel

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
The Hour of the Predator Giuliano da Empoli
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
L'Aventura Sophie Letourneur

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