Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
more

Mother for Dinner

by Shalom Auslander

Lists

The Best Books of 2021: Economist

Trending Lists

The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Heart the Lover Lily King
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Twinless James Sweeney
Earth Mama Savanah Leaf
Till Chinonye Chukwu
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds