Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Matt Patches: Fighting in the War Room: Top Ten Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Maker of Patterns

An Autobiography Through Letters

by Freeman Dyson

Lists

Favorite Books of 2018: Maria Popova

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2018 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Ten Films of 2025 Matt Patches · Fighting in the War Room
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Best Albums of 2018 Billboard
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s A.V. Club
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Albums of 2021 Dork
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Heart the Lover Lily King
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Flesh David Szalay
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Visions of Bodies Being Burned clipping.
Happyend Neo Sora
Melancholia Lars von Trier
Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer Vincent Le Port
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Five Seconds Flat Lizzy McAlpine
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Ripley Steven Zaillian
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

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