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
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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The Commuter

by Jaume Collet-Serra

Lists

Top Movies of 2018: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader

Top Films of the Decade: Nellie Killian

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Twinless James Sweeney
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
False Lankum Lankum
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
House of Huawei Eva Dou
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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

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