Year-End Lists

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

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Emily St. James

Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2021 Vox
The 18 Best TV Shows of 2019 Vox
The 21 TV Shows that Explained the 2010s Vox
Best TV of 2018 Vox
18 Best TV Shows of 2017 Vox

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Alpha Julia Ducournau
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Sunshine Place
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
L'Aventura Sophie Letourneur
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Hour of the Predator Giuliano da Empoli
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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