Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Guardian: The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024: Time
Best Poetry of 2024: Maria Crawford: Financial Times

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Ten Best Films of 2020 Jonathan Rosenbaum · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Guardian
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 Consequence

Trending Works

Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
Inside Out 2 Kelsey Mann
Manifesto Bernardine Evaristo
Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
The Forgotten Space Allan Sekula and Noël Burch
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
Mrs. Fletcher
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
Fleabag
Sinners Ryan Coogler

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