Year-End Lists

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

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Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Owen Gleiberman: Variety: The Best Movies of 2025
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Top 50 Albums of 2019: The Wire
Albums of the Year 2019: Quietus

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The Best TV Shows of 2019 Complex
21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 20 TV Shows of 2019 Decider
The 30 Best TV Shows of 2024 Paste
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

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

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