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
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

Ten Best Films of 2021: Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still Hot Mulligan
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Inside Scientology Janet Reitman
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
Getting Killed Geese
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras
XXX Danny Brown
hexed! aya

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