Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2024: Aramide Tinubu: Variety
10 Best TV Shows of 2024: Barbara Ellen: Observer
Best TV Shows of 2024: BuzzFeed
The 30 Best TV Shows of 2024: Paste
The 15 Best New TV Shows of 2024: IndieWire
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024: Polygon
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024: Guardian

The Best TV Shows Of 2024: Uproxx

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
The Antidote Karen Russell
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Rakshak Bloodywood
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
The Miseducation of Cameron Post Desiree Akhavan
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire

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