Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best Movies of 2025 New York Times
Best Movies of 2024 New York Times
Best Movies of 2023 New York Times
The 25 Best Movies of 2022 Vox
The 21 Best Movies of 2021 Vox
The 25 Best Movies of 2020 Vox
The 21 Best Films of 2019 Vox
Best Movies of 2018 Vox
35 Best Films of 2017 Vox

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Big Time Angel Olsen
Museum Music Edward Skeletrix
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude
Revengeseekerz Jane Remover
Bo Burnham: Inside Bo Burnham
Viagr Aboys Viagra Boys
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Dead Man’s Wire Gus Van Sant
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Adolescence
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
At Fargrounds Jacken Elswyth
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