Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
more

Adès Conducts Adès

by Boston Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Adès & Kirill Gerstein & Christianne Stotijn & Mark Stone

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2020: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2021 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Empire Bruno Dumont
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Lego Movie Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Dar Disku Dar Disku
Weapons Zach Cregger
I’m All Ears Let’s Eat Grandma
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
YHLQMDLG Bad Bunny
The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Brahms – Schumann Yuuko Shiokawa & András Schiff
One Fine Morning Mia Hansen-Løve

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

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds