Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lu and Ren’s Guide to Geozoology

A Graphic Novel

by Angela Hsieh

Lists

Best Books of 2025: Book Riot

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
XXX Danny Brown
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Holy Motors Leos Carax
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello

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