Year-End Lists

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

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Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

by Simon Curtis

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Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Clean Slate
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Idlewild Idlewild
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Francesca David Murray Quartet
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Mountainhead Jesse Armstrong
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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