Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2019
Sight & Sound: Top 35 Films of 2015
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Everything Is Alive
1. Favorite Albums 2023: Bob Boilen
Extralife
1. Top Ten Albums of 2018: Bob Boilen: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

Top 30 Films of 2016 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 The Playlist
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2019 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 35 Films of 2015 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Xerox Over Manhattan Shane Jesse Christmass
The Chronicles of Now
Clinging to a Scheme The Radio Dept.
Love's Holiday Oxbow
Dos estaciones Juan Pablo González
Italopunk Vanja van der Leeden
Intercepted Oksana Karpovych
The Holdovers Alexander Payne
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Excavation The Haxan Cloak
The Power of the Dog Jane Campion
Ace Attorney Takashi Miike
The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk

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