Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Nicole Brenez: Sight & Sound: Favorite Films of 2017
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2025
Village Voice: Top 100 Albums of 2016
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As We See It

Lists

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022: John Doyle: Globe and Mail
Best TV Shows of 2022: James Poniewozik: New York Times

Trending Lists

Top 26 Films of 2017 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
2020 Award The Booker Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s Spin
Favorite Films of 2017 Nicole Brenez · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Case Study Graeme Macrae Burnet
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
The Snoopy Show
Masterminds Jared Hess
The Heart That Fed Carl Sciacchitano
The Neon Demon Nicolas Winding Refn
Us Fools Nora Lange
Middle Spoon Alejandro Varela
Slanting Towards the Sea Lidija Hilje
My Journey Through French Cinema Bertrand Tavernier
The Grandmaster (U.S. cut) Wong Kar-Wai
Lakota Nation vs. United States Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians Radu Jude
Swagger

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