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
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Doomstead Days

by Brian Teare

Lists

Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2019: Entropy

Poetry 2019: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Pillion Harry Lighton
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Sinners Ryan Coogler
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
hexed! aya
Weapons Zach Cregger
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie

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