Year-End Lists

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

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Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Seduction

Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

by Karina Longworth

Lists

Best Books of 2018: Bustle

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Movies Of 2021 Uproxx
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Oracle Cate Marvin
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Liars Sarah Manguso
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Clean Slate
Sly Thom Zimny
The Sunshine Place

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