Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best TV Shows of 2025: Kelly Lawler: USA Today
The Best TV Of 2025 With Lesbian, Queer Women and Trans Characters: Autostraddle
Best TV Shows of 2025: Nora Dominick: BuzzFeed
The 20 Best TV Shows of 2025: NME

The 10 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of 2025: Them

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Alissa Wilkinson · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Poetry of 2023 Elisa Gabbert · New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Resurrection Bi Gan
Rotting in the Sun Sebastián Silva
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Tom Lake Ann Patchett
Mistress Dispeller Elizabeth Lo
Unnecessary Riffness Red Sun & Bonus
XXX Danny Brown
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Last Rotation of Earth BC Camplight
Weapons Zach Cregger
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle Arthur Harari
Rituals Watchhouse
Orient Nicholas Gulig

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