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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Lists

Best Nonfiction of 2023: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
Top 20 TV Shows of 2019 Decider
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 30 Best TV Shows of 2024 Paste
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The Best TV Shows of 2019 Complex

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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