Year-End Lists

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

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Bond King
- Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022: Lit Hub

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
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 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Alpha Julia Ducournau
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
L'Aventura Sophie Letourneur
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Hour of the Predator Giuliano da Empoli
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
XXX Danny Brown
24 Frames Abbas Kiarostami

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