Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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Amanda Wilder

Approaching the Elephant

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best TV Shows of 2023 Judy Berman · Time
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian

Trending Works

Sly Thom Zimny
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Idlewild Idlewild
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
Oracle Cate Marvin
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
The Sunshine Place
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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