Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
more

Vessel

Queen of Golden Dogs
Punish, Honey
1. 51 Favourite Albums of 2014: Drowned in Sound
Order of Noise
1. Top 20 Albums of 2012: Resident Advisor
2. The Top 100 Albums of 2012: Crack Magazine

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Vibe Killer Endless Boogie
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Time Garrett Bradley
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

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