Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Atlantic: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
more

Magical/Realism

Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Lists

Nonfiction 2024: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant
10 Best Books of 2022 Publishers Weekly
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
False Dawn George Selgin
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade
Tabu Miguel Gomes
‘Til Madness Do Us Part Wang Bing
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Stage Four Touché Amoré
Vortex Gaspar Noé
Ash is Purest White Jia Zhang-ke
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Inside Llewyn Davis Joel & Ethan Coen
Certified Copy Abbas Kiarostami

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds