Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020: Eliana Dockterman: Time

Best Podcasts of 2020: Teen Vogue
The Best Podcasts of 2020: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture
Best Podcasts of 2020: Rolling Stone

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Weapons Zach Cregger
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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