Year-End Lists

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

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Alan Sepinwall: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Adam Frank

Light of the Stars
- Favorite Books of 2018: Smithsonian

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Post Steven Spielberg
Past Lives Celine Song
Heavy Metal Cameron Winter
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
I'm Still Here Walter Salles

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