Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Jamie Woon

Making Time
1. Top 20 Albums of 2015: gal-dem
Mirrorwriting
1. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Gigwise
2. Best Albums of 2011: Guardian

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Clean Slate
The Sunshine Place
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Francesca David Murray Quartet
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Sly Thom Zimny
Liars Sarah Manguso
Oracle Cate Marvin

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