Year-End Lists

A 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
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
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Kate Briggs

The Long Form
- Best Fiction of 2023: Goldsmiths Prize
- Books We Loved in 2023: Boston Globe
This Little Art
- Favorite Books of 2018: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Fragments for Venus Alice Diop
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Weapons Zach Cregger
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Last Summer Catherine Breillat
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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