Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Clarisse Loughrey: Independent: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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End of the Middle

by Richard Dawson

Lists

Albums of the Year 2025: Quietus
80 Best Albums of 2025: Uncut
Albums of the Year 2025: Loud And Quiet
Top 50 Albums of 2025: The Wire
The 75 Best Albums of 2025: Mojo
Albums of the Year 2025: God Is In The TV
The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters
Best Albums of 2025: Obscure Sound

Trending Lists

Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Albums of 2022 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 20 Books of 2017 Time
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... Steven Pinker
Fargo
Tearless Amnesia Scanner
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Eno Gary Hustwit
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
The Long Walk Francis Lawrence
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman
Le Kov Gwenno

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