Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Atlantic: 14 Best TV Shows of 2025

17 December 2025

North of North

The Atlantic: 14 Best TV Shows of 2025

TV lists in other years: 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020

Also from the Atlantic in 2025: Movies · Music · Books · Podcasts

Adolescence
The Lowdown
Task
Adults
The Diplomat
The Pitt
Severance
The Traitors
Dying for Sex
The Rehearsal
Dept. Q
The Summer I Turned Pretty
North of North
Andor

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Greatest Albums of the 2010s NME
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On Franny Choi
Bent Sørensen: St Matthew Passion The Norwegian Soloists' Choir / Ensemble Allegria / Grete Pedersen
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Robe of Gems Natalia López
Paradise Slow Club
The Strobo Trip: Light and Audio Phase Illusions Toy The Flaming Lips
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
Punisher Phoebe Bridgers
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Gloss Drop Battles
Predators David Osit
Blackstar David Bowie
Testing A$AP Rocky
Doomin' Sun Bachelor

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