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
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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- The 45 Best New Books of 2023: Harper’s Bazaar
- Best Nonfiction of 2023: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Fingernails Christos Nikou
Idlewild Idlewild
Clean Slate
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Liars Sarah Manguso
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Sly Thom Zimny
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs

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