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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
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Circumstantial Pleasures

by Lewis Klahr

Lists

Best Movies of 2020: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
Top 25 Films of 2020: In Review Online

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
Top 100 Albums of 2018 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Emo Albums Of 2022 Ian Cohen · Uproxx
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Last Days of Budapest Adam LeBor
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino
Jiro Dreams of Sushi David Gelb
Lucre Dean Blunt, Elias Rønnenfelt, and Vegyn
Souleymane's Story Boris Lojkine
Hard Headed Woman Margo Price
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
Blue Lights
A Truce That Is Not Peace Miriam Toews
Brat Charli XCX
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
Anti Rihanna
Fetch the Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple
Miroirs No. 3 Christian Petzold

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