Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Tasha Robinson: The Next Picture Show: Top Ten Films of 2025
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The Sword and the Shield
- The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Top Ten Films of 2025 Tasha Robinson · The Next Picture Show

Trending Works

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
How to Have Sex Molly Manning Walker
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
XXX Danny Brown
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Live Forever Bartees Strange
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
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