Year-End Lists

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

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025
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Francisco Rojas

A Sense of Nothing
- Twenty-One Experimental Films That Defined 2024: Michael Sicinski
Sea of Glass
- 25 Great Experimental Films of 2023: Michael Sicinski

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025 Entertainment Weekly
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Ad Astra James Gray
Friendship Andrew DeYoung
XXX Danny Brown
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Alpha Julia Ducournau
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Ruth Kate Riley
Weapons Zach Cregger
The Other Story Avi Nesher
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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