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
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
New Statesman: TV Shows of the Year 2025
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Babel

An Arcane History

by R.F. Kuang

Lists

Favorite Books of 2022: Salon

The Best Books of 2022: BuzzFeed
Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
TV Shows of the Year 2025 New Statesman
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Yeezus Kanye West
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Free Form Dizzy Fae
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall
Renaissance Beyoncé
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Brat Charli XCX
Gasp Seth Graham
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Treats Sleigh Bells
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt

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