Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Ellen Arkbro

Nightclouds
- Favorite Albums of 2025: Tone Glow
For Organ and Brass
1. Top 50 Albums of 2017: The Wire
- Favorite Albums of 2017: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Books of 2021 Michael Silverblatt · KCRW
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

A Disposition To Be Rich Geoffrey C. Ward
Clean Slate
The Devil's Plan
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Liars Sarah Manguso
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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