Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Film School Rejects

Lists

The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s
50 Best Movies of 2018
Best Movies Directed By Women in 2018 Valerie Ettenhofer
Best Movies of 2017

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 100 Albums of 2011 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
75 Best Albums of 2022 Mojo

Trending Works

The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
LP Big Stick
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Black Metal Dean Blunt
The Galleons Rick Barot
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Dexter: Resurrection
Cold War Pawel Pawlikowski
Barbara Christian Petzold
Nuremberg James Vanderbilt
Body Talk Robyn
1000 Forms of Fear Sia

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