Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
more

Hymnal

by Lyra Pramuk

Lists

The Top 20 Albums of 2025: A Closer Listen
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
Albums of the Year 2025: Quietus

10 Favorite New Albums of 2025: Hazel Cills

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
hexed! aya
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Pillion Harry Lighton
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Weapons Zach Cregger
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Sinners Ryan Coogler

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds