Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024: Guardian

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Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Clean Slate
Oracle Cate Marvin
The Sunshine Place
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Liars Sarah Manguso
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sly Thom Zimny
Idlewild Idlewild
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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