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
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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We the Animals

by Jeremiah Zagar

Lists

Favorite Fifteen Films of 2018: Marya E. Gates
Best Movies of 2018: Eric Kohn: IndieWire

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Bird Andrea Arnold
Island of Wings Karin Altenberg
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Cody Joyce Manor
All That Reckoning Cowboy Junkies
Empire of AI Karen Hao
Ology Gallant
Gentle Grip Public Practice
The Raid 2 Gareth Evans
XXX Danny Brown
The Power In Us Poppy Ajudha
Look Back Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Loop Brenda Lozano
Getting Killed Geese

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