Year-End Lists

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

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times: 20 Best Movies of 2012
Quietus: Albums of the Year 2025
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Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2025: Louder Than War

Albums of the Year 2025: Rough Trade
Favorite Albums of 2025: Steve Erickson

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s Billboard
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
Albums of the Year 2025 Quietus
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024 Washington Post
Best Fiction of 2025 Maria Crawford · Financial Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
20 Best Movies of 2012 Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times
Best Films of 2023 Jonathan Rosenbaum · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

The English Hugo Blick
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Crimes of the Future David Cronenberg
Son of Saul László Nemes
Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt
All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
The Chronology of Water Kristen Stewart
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
Vertières I, II, III Louise Botkay
Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino
Sex Education
Nope Jordan Peele

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