Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
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Lists

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

Best Southern Albums of 2024: Bitter Southerner

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Resurrection Bi Gan
Queer Luca Guadagnino
The Serpent
The Missing Picture Rithy Panh
Western Valeska Grisebach
Norman Fucking Rockwell! Lana Del Rey
Counterpart
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
The Eagle Huntress Otto Bell
The Universe Smiles upon You Khruangbin
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Jafar Panahi
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank

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