Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Richard Nickel and Aaron Suskind, with John Vinci and Ward Miller

The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan
1. Books of the Year 2011: Benjamin Schwarz: Atlantic

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Idlewild Idlewild
Oracle Cate Marvin
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Clean Slate
The Sunshine Place
Liars Sarah Manguso
Sly Thom Zimny
Francesca David Murray Quartet

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