Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Alan Sepinwall: The Best TV Shows of 2025
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by Rustie

Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2012: Pitchfork

Trending Lists

Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sly Thom Zimny
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
The Sunshine Place
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Idlewild Idlewild
Francesca David Murray Quartet
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Liars Sarah Manguso

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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