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
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Alexander Payne

The Holdovers
Downsizing
Nebraska
The Descendants

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron
Boom Town Sam Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Eternity, In Your Arms Creeper
Brat Charli XCX
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
Channel Orange Frank Ocean
Territory of Light Yuko Tsushima
Let's Rock The Black Keys
Richard Jewell Clint Eastwood
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Middle Jesse Welles

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