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
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Entertainment Weekly

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

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

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