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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Lists

Best Poetry of 2021: New York Public Library
Top 10 Books of 2021: New York Public Library

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Teenage Matt Wolf
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Passages Ira Sachs
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sinners Ryan Coogler
XXX Danny Brown
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Galleons Rick Barot

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