Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Jon Caramanica: New York Times: Best Albums of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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by Joel Potrykus

Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
The Best Films of 2025: A.A. Dowd
Best Films of 2025: In Review Online
Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Nick Schager: Daily Beast
Top 10 Movies of 2025: Steve Erickson: GCN

Trending Lists

The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard

Trending Works

Known and Strange Things Teju Cole
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Sentences and Rain Elaine Equi
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Mother Emanuel Kevin Sack
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
Death Farm Carl Hauck

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