Year-End Lists

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

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Alan Sepinwall: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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1. The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019: Esquire
- The 10 Best Books of 2019: Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune

Trending Lists

Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Idlewild Idlewild
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
The Sunshine Place
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Clean Slate
Sly Thom Zimny
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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