Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best Music of 2021: Steve Erickson: GCN

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Francesca David Murray Quartet
The Sunshine Place
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Clean Slate
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Sly Thom Zimny
Liars Sarah Manguso
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Idlewild Idlewild

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