Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
New Statesman: TV Shows of the Year 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Zootopia 2

by Jared Bush and Byron Howard

Lists

Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win
Top Ten Films of 2025: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
TV Shows of the Year 2025 New Statesman

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
hexed! aya
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Yeezus Kanye West
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Middle Jesse Welles
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Getting Killed Geese
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall
Renaissance Beyoncé
Treats Sleigh Bells
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Gasp Seth Graham
Chokepoints Edward Fishman

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