Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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by Shalini Kantayya

Lists

10 Best Films of 2020: Amy Taubin: Artforum

Best Movies of 2020: Manohla Dargis: New York Times

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Emo Albums Of 2022 Ian Cohen · Uproxx
Top 100 Albums of 2018 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

20th Century Women Mike Mills
Gemini Rights Steve Lacy
Hard Headed Woman Margo Price
Amygdala DJ Koze
Miroirs No. 3 Christian Petzold
The Last Days of Budapest Adam LeBor
Fetch the Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple
Anti Rihanna
Brat Charli XCX
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
Blue Lights
Souleymane's Story Boris Lojkine
Jiro Dreams of Sushi David Gelb

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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