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
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The 60 Best Movies of 2024: Max Cea: Esquire
100 Favorite Movies of 2024: Sean Fennessey

The 12 Best Documentaries of 2024: Noel Murray: Polygon

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Cow Andrea Arnold
Passages Ira Sachs
The Galleons Rick Barot
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
Teenage Matt Wolf
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
All-Night Pharmacy Ruth Madievsky
Tár Todd Field

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