Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2024: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
Top 10 Movies of 2011 Dana Stevens · Slate
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s A.V. Club
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Beginners Mike Mills
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
From Ground Zero
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Looper Rian Johnson
Civil War Alex Garland
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Boy and the Heron Hayao Miyazaki

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