Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best Movies of 2021: Joe Morgenstern: Wall Street Journal

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best TV Shows of 2023 Judy Berman · Time
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
The Sunshine Place
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
Sly Thom Zimny
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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