Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Owen Gleiberman: Variety: The Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Top 20 Books of 2016: Sarah Begley: Time

2016 Award: The Booker Prize
Fiction 2016: Women's Prize
15 Best Fiction Books of 2016: John Freeman: Boston Globe
100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle

Trending Lists

The 35 Best Books of 2025 Adam Morgan · Esquire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Movies of 2025 Ty Burr
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
The Best Records of 2024 Resident Advisor
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2020 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2020 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The 50 Best Albums of 2022 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Hinterlands Scott Barley
In Transit David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
I'm Your Woman Julia Hart
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlic
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
The Unknown Man of Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy
It's a Sin
Live Forever Bartees Strange
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Onania Club Tom Six
Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers

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