Year-End Lists

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

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Atlantic: The Best Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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The 50 Best Movies of 2021: Paste

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 100 Films of the 2010s In Review Online
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Tár Todd Field
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Thresholder Ian William Craig
Cyrano Joe Wright
Submit X Gesloten Cirkel
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Monsoon Hong Khaou
The True Story of Bananagun Bananagun

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