Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Best TV Shows of 2024: BuzzFeed
Best TV Shows of 2025: Nora Dominick: BuzzFeed
The Best TV Shows of 2024: Kelly Lawler: USA Today

Best TV Shows of 2025: Kelly Lawler: USA Today

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
The Sunshine Place
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Sly Thom Zimny
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Clean Slate
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Idlewild Idlewild
Liars Sarah Manguso

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