Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Karina Longworth

You Must Remember This - Karina Longworth

Lists

The Best Podcasts of 2018: Entertainment Weekly

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

How to End a Story Helen Garner
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
XXX Danny Brown
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Suspicious Minds
Big Time Angel Olsen
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Found Sound Faded
Paper Girl Beth Macy

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