Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
David Fear: Rolling Stone: The 20 Best Movies of 2025
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Albums of the Year 2011: Quietus

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best TV Shows of 2019 Complex
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex
The 30 Best TV Shows of 2024 Paste
25 Best TV Shows of 2018 Slant
Top 20 TV Shows of 2019 Decider
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Fin John Talabot
Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton
Born to Die Lana Del Rey
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Petite Maman Céline Sciamma
Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Rakshak Bloodywood
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
Fetch the Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Trois, Deux, Un Juniore

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