Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
James Poniewozik: New York Times: Best TV Shows of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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by Damien Jurado

Lists

50 Best Albums of 2012: Paste

2012 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Weapons Zach Cregger
Sinners Ryan Coogler
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
We the People Jill Lepore

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