Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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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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The In-Betweens

A Lyrical Memoir

by Davon Loeb

Lists

Best Nonfiction of 2023: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

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

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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