Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Dress Codes
- Best Nonfiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews
Rights Gone Wrong
- 100 Notable Books of 2011: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Big Time Angel Olsen
Bo Burnham: Inside Bo Burnham
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Paper Girl Beth Macy
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Suspicious Minds
Museum Music Edward Skeletrix
Adolescence
U R HERE Honesty
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Dead Man’s Wire Gus Van Sant
Too Much
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim

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