Year-End Lists

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

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Film Comment: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The 30 Best TV Shows of 2021: Paste

The Best TV Shows of 2021: Polygon

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

Past Lives Celine Song
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
XXX Danny Brown
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Holy Motors Leos Carax
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha

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