Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2023: Guardian

Top Ten Films of 2023: Brian Darr: Senses of Cinema: Senses of Cinema World Poll

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best International TV Shows of 2024 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

Music for Living Spaces Green-House
Crows In The Basilica Chuck Johnson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
Sicario Denis Villeneuve
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
American Fiction Cord Jefferson
Civil War Alex Garland
Eddington Ari Aster
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies The Inward Circles
Tár Todd Field
24 Frames Abbas Kiarostami

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