Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021: Justin Kirkland: Esquire

The 16 Best TV Shows of 2021: Atlantic
The 19 Best TV Shows of 2021: Vogue

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Clean Slate
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Idlewild Idlewild
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
Fingernails Christos Nikou
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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