Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2020
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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by Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz

Lists

Top 30 Movies of 2014: Wesley Morris: Grantland

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 35 Best Books of 2025 Adam Morgan · Esquire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Movies of 2020 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Records of 2024 Resident Advisor
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2020 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

An Oral History of Atlantis Ed Park
Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
The Unknown Man of Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy
The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings The Besnard Lakes
Essex Honey Blood Orange
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
Tomboy Céline Sciamma
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Live Forever Bartees Strange
The Grey Album Kevin Young
Melancholia Lars von Trier
Half Living Things Alpha Wolf

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