Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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What Just Happened

Notes on a Long Year

by Charles Finch

Lists

The Best Books of 2021: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Movies of 2024 Guardian
The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2024 Loudwire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
50 Best Albums of 2013 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2024 Them
The 20 Best Movies of 2020 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s Time
The Best Queer Poetry Releases of 2024 Autostraddle

Trending Works

Anora Sean Baker
Titane Julia Ducournau
Vortex Gaspar Noé
I'm a Virgo Boots Riley
Il Buco Michelangelo Frammartino
Anansi's Gold Yepoka Yeebo
Orphan Black
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Radu Jude
Mr. Wonderful Action Bronson
Paddington 2 Paul King
By the Stream Hong Sang-soo
What's Your Pleasure? Jessie Ware
Crystalline Exhaustion Krallice

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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