Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The Mission

The CIA in the 21st Century

by Tim Weiner

Lists

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Poetry Books of 2024 Elisa Gabbert · New York Times · New York Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2024 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Dexter: Resurrection
The Card Counter Paul Schrader
Yes! Nadav Lapid
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Assisted Living Nikanor Teratologen
Sport Powell
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
Peak Human Johan Norberg
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
XXX Danny Brown
I Only Rest in the Storm Pedro Pinho
Body High Lucki Eck$

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