Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The Big Picture

Lists

Top 10 Movies of the 2010s Chris Ryan
Top 10 Movies of the 2010s Amanda Dobbins
Top 10 Movies of the 2010s Sean Fennessey

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Pillion Harry Lighton
Weapons Zach Cregger
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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