Year-End Lists

A 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
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Best Southern Albums of 2025
Best Southern Albums of 2024
Best Southern Albums of 2023
Best Southern Albums of 2022

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The Best Country Music Albums of 2025 Holler
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019 Wired UK
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top Ten Films of 2016 Seongyong Cho · RogerEbert.com
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Promises Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
Choke Enough Oklou
I Miss You When I Blink Mary Laura Philpott
Dry Ground Burning Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós
Box for Buddy, Box for Star This Is Lorelei
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Flesh David Szalay
Her Spike Jonze
Pluribus
Fargo
Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) Jesse Q. Sutanto

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