Year-End Lists

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

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Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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The 10 Best Podcasts We Listened To In 2023: HuffPost

Trending Lists

The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Fingernails Christos Nikou
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
Idlewild Idlewild
Oracle Cate Marvin
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place

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