Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Wild Tales

by Damián Szifrón

Lists

19 Best Movies of 2015: Alison Willmore: BuzzFeed
50 Best Films of 2015: Guardian

22 Best Movies of 2015: Christopher Orr: Atlantic
66 Best Films of 2015: IndieWire
18 Best Movies of 2015: Stephen Holden: New York Times

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
La 167 Farruko
Mother Emanuel Kevin Sack
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
Death Farm Carl Hauck
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
Severance
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
Known and Strange Things Teju Cole

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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