Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
AllMusic: Best Albums of 2025
more

Jourdain Searles

Lists

Favorite Films of 2023
Best Films of 2021 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2019 Seventh Row · Seventh Row Critics Survey
Best Black Films of the 2010s
The 10 Best Films of 2017
The 10 Best Films of 2016

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Albums of 2025 AllMusic
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Found Sound Faded
At Fargrounds Jacken Elswyth
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Viagr Aboys Viagra Boys
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
Big Time Angel Olsen
Velvet Was the Night Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Too Much
Việt and Nam Truong Minh Quy
Resurrection Bi Gan
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood

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