Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews

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Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Albums of the Year 2025 Clash
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

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Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Sly Thom Zimny
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Idlewild Idlewild
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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