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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

by Meshell Ndegeocello

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
123 Favorite Albums Of 2024: Hanif Abdurraqib
The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NPR: NPR Music
The Best Albums of 2024: David Hajdu: The Nation
Best Albums of 2024: AllMusic

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2019 Christy Lemire · RogerEbert.com
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Treble
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Pitchfork
50 Best Albums of 2013 Complex
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times

Trending Works

Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Jafar Panahi
The Universe Smiles upon You Khruangbin
Queer Luca Guadagnino
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Aja Monet
Norman Fucking Rockwell! Lana Del Rey
Western Valeska Grisebach
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Chronicle Josh Trank
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
Counterpart
In The Wild Jasmyn
The Serpent

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