Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Films of 2025
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Drowned in Sound

Lists

25 Favourite Albums of 2025
15 Favourite Albums of 2018
100 Favourite Albums of 2017
16 Favourite Albums of 2016
100 Favourite Albums of 2015
51 Favourite Albums of 2014
100 Favourite Albums of 2012
Favourite Albums of 2011

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Frontrunner Frontperson
Rough and Rowdy Ways Bob Dylan
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Outrun Nora Fingscheidt
Neither Heaven Nor Earth Clément Cogitore
The Substance Coralie Fargeat
Contra Vampire Weekend
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Sinners Ryan Coogler
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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