Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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by James Bluemel

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The 50 Best TV Show of 2020: Guardian

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Last Summer Catherine Breillat
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Fragments for Venus Alice Diop
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Weapons Zach Cregger

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