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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Benny Safdie

The Smashing Machine
- Top Ten Films of 2025: Clémence Polès Farhang

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

The French Press Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Yr Dead Sam Sax
Devotional The Lord † Petra Haden
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Abandon Pharmakon
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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