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
Boston Globe: The Best Books of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
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Lists

Best Films of 2025: Chloe Lizotte: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
Top Ten Films of 2025: Marya E. Gates: RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 TV Shows of the 2010s Consequence
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2011 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club

Trending Works

The Brutalist Brady Corbet
A Hologram for the King Tom Tykwer
The House That Jack Built Lars von Trier
The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
Tomboy Panda Bear
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
The Serpent
Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
France Bruno Dumont
Who Is Government? Michael Lewis
I'm a Virgo Boots Riley
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton

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