Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Aaron Lee Tasjan

Lists

The Best Albums of 2024: Chris Willman: Variety
Best Albums of 2024: Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Trending Lists

80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2021 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
50 Best Albums of 2015 Complex
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Good Girl Aria Aber
I Miss You When I Blink Mary Laura Philpott
Snack Shack Adam Carter Rehmeier
Good One India Donaldson
The Art of Uncertainty David Spiegelhalter
I Inside the Old Year Dying PJ Harvey
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Autumn Nathaniel Dorsky
The Stardust Grail Yume Kitasei
Stochastic Drift Barker
Smoke Dan Vyleta
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Metallic Life Review Matmos
Balloonerism Mac Miller

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