Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

The 50 Best TV Shows of 2021: Guardian

Best of TV 2021: Inkoo Kang: Washington Post
Best Television of 2021: Passerby
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021: Judy Berman: Time
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021: Matthew Gilbert: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 10 Movies of 2011 Dana Stevens · Slate
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Civil War Alex Garland
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Beginners Mike Mills
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
From Ground Zero
Looper Rian Johnson

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