Year-End Lists

A hand-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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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Chicano Batman

Invisible People
- Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade
Freedom Is Free
1. 60 Best Albums of 2017: PopMatters

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Poetry Collections of 2019 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Francesca David Murray Quartet
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Clean Slate
Mountainhead Jesse Armstrong
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Idlewild Idlewild
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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