Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Pablo Marín

Lists

Twenty-One Experimental Films That Defined 2024: Michael Sicinski

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Weapons Zach Cregger
A People's History of Heaven Mathangi Subramanian
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr.
Open City Teju Cole
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Dry Leaf Aleksandre Koberidze
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Wild Houses Colin Barrett
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
XXX Danny Brown

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