Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Best TV Shows of 2025: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025: RogerEbert.com
The Best TV Of 2025 With Lesbian, Queer Women and Trans Characters: Autostraddle

The Best TV Shows of 2025: Uproxx

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Poetry of 2019 Library Journal
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2011 A.O. Scott · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Cunningham Bird Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird
The Strange Little Cat Ramon Zürcher
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
Silo
Lonely People with Power Deafheaven
Curb Your Enthusiasm
NDN Coping Mechanisms Billy-Ray Belcourt
XXX Danny Brown
Deep State Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
Couples Therapy
Gen V
This Is Country Music Brad Paisley
Anora Sean Baker

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