Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
more

Akinola Davies Jr.

My Father's Shadow
- Best Movies of 2025: Lindsey Bahr: AP
- Best Movies of 2025: Jake Coyle: AP

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sinners Ryan Coogler
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams

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