Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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Fragile Acts
- 7 Best Small-Press Poetry Books of 2012: Michael Robbins: Chicago Tribune

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Clean Slate
The Sunshine Place
Sly Thom Zimny
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Idlewild Idlewild
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Oracle Cate Marvin
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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