Year-End Lists

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

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

The Best Television Series of 2020: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound TV Poll

The 15 Best TV Shows of 2020: Atlantic

Trending Lists

The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024 Guardian
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
75 Best Albums of 2016 Uncut
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2024 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
14 Best TV Shows of 2025 Atlantic
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Mars Volta The Mars Volta
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
Ancestor Trouble Maud Newton
Jade Pan Daijing
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
The Farewell Lulu Wang
Communion Park Jiha
Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler [retrospective] Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
The Off-Season J. Cole
The Wager David Grann
Afterparties Anthony Veasna So
We're All Alone in This Together Dave
Sorry to Bother You The Coup

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