Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Magical/Realism
- Nonfiction 2024: National Book Award
Beast Meridian
1. Best Poetry Books of 2017: Entropy
- Favorite Poetry Collections of 2017: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
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
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Sunshine Place
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Idlewild Idlewild
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sly Thom Zimny
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Liars Sarah Manguso
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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