Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2025
Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2026
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Game Changer

Appears on three lists

#13 The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024: Polygon
#22 The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025: A.V. Club
#47 The 50 Best TV Shows of 2023: Polygon

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
20 Best Films of 2016 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
10 Best Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
Top 50 Films of 2025 Film Stage
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Poetry Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
10 Best Books of 2024 Publishers Weekly

Trending Works

The AGI Chronicles Kevin Roose
The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden
This Vast Enterprise Craig Fehrman
Spotlight: Snitch City
Transcription Ben Lerner
In Her Nature Rachel Hewitt
The Danger to Be Sane Rosa Montero
Game Night John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
The Castle Jon Ronson
How Big Things Get Done Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
Be Easy Adrian Matejka
Intifadas Edward Salem
MITH Lonnie Holley

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