Year-End Lists

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

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Clarisse Loughrey: Independent: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

10 Best Films of 2020: Cassie da Costa: Artforum

Top Films of 2019: Steven D. Greydanus: National Catholic Register
The Best Movies of 2019: Richard Brody: New Yorker

Trending Lists

The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Paste
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 55 Best TV Shows of the 2010s BuzzFeed
25 Best TV Shows of 2018 Slant
The Best TV Shows of 2019 Complex
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Speak To Me Julian Lage
1989 Taylor Swift
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
One Year: 1977
American: An Odyssey to 1947 Danny Wu
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Interior Live Oak Cass McCombs
Trois, Deux, Un Juniore
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
Le Kov Gwenno
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
Rental Family Hikari

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