Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Michael Sicinski: Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025
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Mosab Abu Toha

Forest of Noise

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Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
25 Best Films of 2018 David Ehrlich
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly

Trending Works

Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Bone Valley
Interview with the Vampire
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
A Very English Scandal
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Good One India Donaldson
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
A United Kingdom Amma Asante

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