Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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Colson Whitehead

Crook Manifesto
1. The 20 Best Books of 2023: Esquire
Harlem Shuffle
1. 20 Favorite Books of 2021: Oprah Daily
The Nickel Boys
The Underground Railroad

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Sunshine Place
Idlewild Idlewild
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Clean Slate
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Oracle Cate Marvin
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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