Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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A.J. Jacobs

The Year of Living Constitutionally
- The Best Books of 2024: Economist
The Puzzler
- My 25 Favorite New Podcasts of 2023: Lauren Passell: Lifehacker

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Movies of 2023 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Sunshine Place
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sly Thom Zimny
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Idlewild Idlewild
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Liars Sarah Manguso
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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