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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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- Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025: Chicago Public Library
- The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025: Them

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Splitsville Michael Angelo Covino
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Thresholder Ian William Craig
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Vida
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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