Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Scott Tobias: The Reveal: The Best Films of 2025
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The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Scott Tobias · The Reveal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s A.V. Club

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Deep State Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
Believable: The Coco Berthmann Story
Companion Drew Hancock
Mob Psycho 100
So Beautiful or So What Paul Simon
Cunningham Bird Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird
Sunbather Deafheaven
Why Q Needs U Danny Bate
LP Big Stick
Things Take Time, Take Time Courtney Barnett
The Other Story Avi Nesher
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Booksmart Olivia Wilde
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