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
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Athena Farrokhzad

White Blight
- 10 Best Poetry Books of 2016: John Freeman: Boston Globe
- The 10 Best Poetry Collections of the Decade: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Movies of 2011 Dana Stevens · Slate
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
From Ground Zero
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
Beginners Mike Mills
Getting Killed Geese
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Civil War Alex Garland
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Looper Rian Johnson

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