Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Elizabeth F. Thompson

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs
- Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
TV Shows of the Year 2025 New Statesman
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Getting Killed Geese
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
hexed! aya
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
The Outrun Nora Fingscheidt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
We Came to Win
Yeezus Kanye West
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Grandmaster Wong Kar-Wai
The Pitt
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen

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