Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

10 Best TV Shows of 2018: Willa Paskin: Slate

Top TV Shows of 2018: Maureen Ryan
Best Movies of 2018: Erin Trahan: WBUR: ARTery

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Albums of 2025 Les Inrocks
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Sinners Ryan Coogler
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
We Came to Win
The Pitt
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Getting Killed Geese
Yeezus Kanye West
The Grandmaster Wong Kar-Wai
Frontrunner Frontperson
The Outrun Nora Fingscheidt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
hexed! aya

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