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
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Stephen Budiansky

A Day in September
- The 10 Best Books of 2024: Wall Street Journal
Journey to the Edge of Reason
- Best Nonfiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews
Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The Best Books of 2019: Wall Street Journal

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Sly Thom Zimny
Oracle Cate Marvin
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Liars Sarah Manguso
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Clean Slate
The Sunshine Place

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