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
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sarah Welch-Larson: Favorite Movies of 2025
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by Brittany Cavallaro

Lists

The 10 Best Poetry Collections of the 2010s: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite Movies of 2025 Sarah Welch-Larson
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Paste
The Best TV Shows of 2019 Complex
21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
25 Best TV Shows of 2018 Slant
Top 20 TV Shows of 2019 Decider
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau

Trending Works

Trois, Deux, Un Juniore
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Black Bag Steven Soderbergh
Rakshak Bloodywood
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
Petite Maman Céline Sciamma
Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton
Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Born to Die Lana Del Rey
Anime, Trauma and Divorce Open Mike Eagle
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin

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