Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
IndieWire Poll: Best Movies of 2025
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Spectacle

Appears on three lists

7 The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021: Eliana Dockterman: Time
32 The 50 Best Podcasts of 2021: Atlantic

The Best Podcasts of 2021: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture Honorable mention

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Screen Slate
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
2026 Award The Booker Prize

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
Teaches of Peaches Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer
All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh
Who Cares? Alexe Poukine
Ludwig
12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen
The Damned Roberto Minervini
Above Ground Clint Smith
The Brittle Age Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
I’m So Fine Khadijah Queen
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Cu Li Never Cries Phạm Ngọc Lân
The Year of Cat Mostafa Taghizadeh

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