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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

The Platform
1. Top 10 Films of 2020: Tasha Robinson: Filmspotting
2. Top 25 Films of 2020: Robert Daniels

Trending Lists

25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Top Ten Films of 2015 Cinema Scope
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll

Trending Works

Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Rakshak Bloodywood
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Antidote Karen Russell

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