Year-End Lists

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

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RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2025
IndieWire: Top 50 Films of 2012
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2025 Variety
The Best TV Shows of 2024 Variety
The Best TV Shows of 2023 Variety
10 Best TV Shows of 2017 The Ringer
10 Best TV Shows of 2016 The Ringer

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Dean's List 2017 Robert Christgau
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Because I Was a Painter Christophe Cognet
In Place of Monuments Naima Ramos-Chapman
Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) Kenji Mizoguchi
Enough Said Nicole Holofcener
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere Nate Smith
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
Silent Night John Woo
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty
Bernie Richard Linklater
Two Shots Fired Martín Rejtman

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