Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Thomas Ankersmit & Valerio Tricoli

Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2011: The Wire

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

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

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