Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Les Inrocks: Best Albums of 2025
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Best Music of 2021: Sasha Geffen: Artforum

Our Favorite Albums, 2021: Tone Glow

Trending Lists

The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Albums of 2025 Les Inrocks
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

This Is Happening LCD Soundsystem
Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection Dril
Portal Balu Brigada
I Love My Computer Ninajirachi
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
What We Spend
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Getting Killed Geese
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra

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