Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024: Polygon
Best TV Shows of 2024: BuzzFeed
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2024: A.V. Club
The 30 Best TV Shows of 2024: Paste

The Best TV Shows of 2021: Polygon

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

Dead Man’s Wire Gus Van Sant
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Suspicious Minds
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
U R HERE Honesty
Adolescence
Paper Girl Beth Macy
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
XXX Danny Brown
There Was, There Was Not Emily Mkrtichian
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Big Time Angel Olsen

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