Year-End Lists

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

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

10 Best TV Shows of 2018: Willa Paskin: Slate

Top TV Shows of 2018: Maureen Ryan
Best Movies of 2018: Erin Trahan: WBUR: ARTery

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Audition Katie Kitamura
XXX Danny Brown
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Flesh David Szalay
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Antidote Karen Russell
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar

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