Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound Poll: The Best Films of 2020
NPR Music: Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
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It: Welcome to Derry

Appears on six lists

5 The Best TV Shows of 2025: Aramide Tinubu: Variety
7 The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025: Complex
9 The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025: Emma Stefansky: ScreenCrush
10 The Best TV Shows of 2025: Sean T. Collins

The Best TV Shows Of 2025: HuffPost
Best TV Shows of 2025: Kelly Lawler: USA Today The Next 10

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Best Albums of 2025 NPR · NPR Music
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2023 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Paste

Trending Works

Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Moodymann Moodymann
Cool Planet Guided by Voices
Parasite Bong Joon-ho
From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art Shinichi Atobe
Orpheus vs. The Sirens Hermit and the Recluse
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
The Open Book Sessions Ronica & The Blazing Stars
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
Communion Park Jiha
I Want to Live My Life Stars Hollow

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