Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Ann Leckie

Lists

50 Best Books of 2015: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Trending Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
We the People Jill Lepore
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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