Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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The Best Books of 2021: Hillary Kelly: New York: Vulture
Best Fiction of 2021: Guardian

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Stereogum
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Civil War Alex Garland
Eddington Ari Aster
And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies The Inward Circles
Nosferatu Robert Eggers
Elle Paul Verhoeven
The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
XXX Danny Brown
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
A Moment in the Sun John Sayles
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
Crows In The Basilica Chuck Johnson
Sticker NCT 127

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