Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Electric Spark

The Enigma of Dame Muriel

by Frances Wilson

Lists

Best Books of 2025: Martin Chilton: Independent

The Best Books of 2025: Economist
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Weapons Zach Cregger
Edna Martinez Presents Picó: Sound System Culture from the Colombian Caribbean various artists
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Her Spike Jonze
The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
The Lighthouse Robert Eggers
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Saint Omer Alice Diop
La chimera Alice Rohrwacher
Sinners Ryan Coogler

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