Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Amanda Coe

What They Do in the Dark
- Top 15 Books of 2012: Benjamin Schwarz: Atlantic

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2021 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Albums of 2020 Rolling Stone
Best Albums of the Year 2018 NME
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Renaissance Beyoncé
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Black Bag Steven Soderbergh
3 Faces Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Mad Men
Pluribus
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Results Andrew Bujalski
Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino
Alpha Julia Ducournau
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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