Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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by R. Eric Thomas

Lists

The Best Books of 2020: Harper’s Bazaar
Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
Resurrection Bi Gan
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Predators David Osit
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Souleymane's Story Boris Lojkine
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Urchin Harris Dickinson
The History of Sound Oliver Hermanus

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