Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Slant: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
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Sight & Sound TV Poll

Lists

The 10 Best TV Series of 2021
The Best Television Series of 2020
The Best TV Series of 2019

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Motherland Julia Ioffe
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Zbig Edward Luce
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

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