Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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by Caleb Femi

Lists

The Best Books of the Year 2020: Lindsay Baker: BBC: BBC Culture
Best Poetry Books of 2020: Guardian

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

U R HERE Honesty
XXX Danny Brown
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Suspicious Minds
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Paper Girl Beth Macy
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Found Sound Faded
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Big Time Angel Olsen

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