Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The Wonder Years

Lists

Best TV Shows of 2021: Kelly Lawler: USA Today

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021: Daniel Fienberg: Hollywood Reporter

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Open City Teju Cole
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
Weapons Zach Cregger
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith

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