Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best Books of 2025: Dazed

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Empire of AI Karen Hao
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
Motherland Julia Ioffe
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Zbig Edward Luce
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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