Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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The Best TV Shows of 2024: Kelly Lawler: USA Today
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2024: Kristen Baldwin: Entertainment Weekly

Best TV Shows of 2025: Kelly Lawler: USA Today

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win

Trending Works

Diamond Eyes Deftones
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Weapons Zach Cregger
Idlewild Idlewild
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Mountainhead Jesse Armstrong

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