Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Janis: Little Girl Blue

by Amy Berg

Lists

Favorite Fifteen Films of 2015: Marya E. Gates
50 Best Movies of 2015: Paste

30 Best Movies of 2015: David Edelstein: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 100 Films of the 2010s In Review Online
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Movies of 2024 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Tár Todd Field
Premature Rashaad Ernesto Green
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
Long Story Short
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Monsoon Hong Khaou
Submit X Gesloten Cirkel
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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