Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The Town of Babylon

by Alejandro Varela

Lists

Favorite Novels of 2022: Electric Lit
Fiction 2022: National Book Award
Best Literary Fiction of 2022: Library Journal

Trending Lists

Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Angel Down Daniel Kraus
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Leftovers Le Ren
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
hexed! aya
Collapsed in Sunbeams Arlo Parks
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Fatigue L'Rain
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
-io Circuit Des Yeux

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