Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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by Kôji Fukada

Lists

50 Best Films of 2017: Slant

Top 30 Movies of 2017: Ed Gonzalez

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Saint Omer Alice Diop
XXX Danny Brown
The Ice Tower Lucile Hadzihalilovic
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Southernmost Leo Boix
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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