Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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The Dissident

by Bryan Fogel

Lists

Top 10 Films of 2020: Todd McCarthy: Deadline
My Favorite Movies of 2020: Sean Fennessey

Best Films of 2020: Jake Coyle: AP

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
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

Savage Hills Ballroom Youth Lagoon
Vince Staples Vince Staples
XXX Danny Brown
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Connie Connie Chung
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Some Kind of Peace Ólafur Arnalds
The Lowdown
Mad God Phil Tippett
Ex Machina Alex Garland
Moonlight Barry Jenkins
Broker Hirokazu Kore-eda
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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