Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Lists

Best Films of 2011: John Waters: Artforum

Top 5 Films of 2012: Mark Cousins: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

The 55 Best TV Shows of the 2010s BuzzFeed
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Paste
Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
Top 20 TV Shows of 2019 Decider
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
25 Best TV Shows of 2018 Slant
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent

Trending Works

This Is the Sonics The Sonics
1989 Taylor Swift
Rental Family Hikari
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Trois, Deux, Un Juniore
Interior Live Oak Cass McCombs
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
American: An Odyssey to 1947 Danny Wu
Speak To Me Julian Lage
Agatha All Along
The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis Jeffrey Lewis
One Year: 1977

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