Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Owen Gleiberman: Variety: The Best Movies of 2025
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by The Rural Alberta Advantage

Lists

30 Best Pop & Rock Albums of 2011: Exclaim
Top 50 Albums of 2011: Austin Town Hall

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014 Tiny Mix Tapes
Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 Tiny Mix Tapes
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Favorite 50 Albums of 2013 Tiny Mix Tapes
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016 Tiny Mix Tapes
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Born to Die Lana Del Rey
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Rakshak Bloodywood
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert
Rift Clara Mann
Petite Maman Céline Sciamma
Fin John Talabot
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon

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