Best of...2025! The Master List
Movies
1. Sinners
2. One Battle After Another
3. Sentimental Value
4. Wake Up Dead Man
5. Black Bag
6. Eephus
7. The Knife
8. Marty Supreme
9. Sorry, Baby
10. The Secret Agent
11. Weapons
12. The Mastermind
13. No Other Choice
14. Sirat
15. Hamnet
16. Companion
17. Bob Trevino Likes It
18. Twinless
19. She Rides Shotgun
20. Dust Bunny
Worst (in no particular order)
War of the Worlds
Hurry Up Tomorrow
Most Anticipated in 2026 (in no particular order)
Digger
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Disclosure Day
TV
1. Adolescence
2. Pluribus
3. The Studio
4. Severance
5. Andor
6. The Residence
7. The Lowdown
8. The Righteous Gemstones
9. Dying for Sex
10. Paradise
11. The Rehearsal
12. Task
13. Slow Horses
14. The Chair Company
15. Smoke
16. The White Lotus
17. The Pitt
18. Your Friends and Neighbors
19. School Spirits
20. Demascus
Worst (in no particular order)
All’s Fair
Zero Day
Most Anticipated in 2026 (in no particular order)
Rooster
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
Spider-Noir
Widow’s Bay
Albums
1. Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party by Hayley Williams
2. Everybody Scream by Florence + The Machine
3. Straight Line Was a Lie by The Beths
4. I Quit by HAIM
5. Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! by Counting Crows
6. Dead Channel Sky by clipping
7. Girl Violence by King Princess
8. Perverts by Ethel Cain
9. The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift
10. Sinners Soundtrack
11. Virgin by Lorde
12. Moisturizer by Wet Leg
13. Man’s Best Friend by Sabrina Carpenter
14. Onto something by senses
15. Automatic by The Lumineers
16. Revelation by The Knocks and Dragonette
17. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
18. Golliwog by Billy Woods
19. Getting Killed by Geese
20. Dear Life by David Gray
Worst (in no particular order)
I’m the Problem by Morgan Wallen
Most Anticipated in 2026 (in no particular order)
Porcelain by Peach PRC
There Will Be Joy by Tessa Violet
Songs
1. The Answer by Energies, Bastille, Joywave & Rittipo
2. Ankles by Lucy Dacus
3. You You You by Maisie Peters
4. Wrecky My Life by Illuminati Hotties featuring PUP
5. When I Was by Youth Group
6. Man I Need by Olivia Dean
7. Both Eyes Closed by A$AP Rocky
8. Animal by Goose
9. Gloria by Summer Set
10. Daisies by Justin Bieber
11. Supermodel by Good Boy Daisy
12. Sally, When the Wine Runs Out by Role Model
13. Check by bbno$
14. Diet Pepsi by Ben Platt
15. Independent Girls & Nasty Evil Gays by Jeangu Macrooy
16. The Subway by Chappelle Roan
17. Defying Gravity by Josh Ramsay
18. Himbo by Boy Radio
19. Letter From An Unknown Girlfriend by The Waterboys ft. Fiona Apple
20. Victory Lap by Fred Again, PlaqueBoyMax and Skepta
Worst (in no particular order)
Mystical Magical by Benson Boone
Pretty Girls by Will Smith
Comics
1. The Absolute Universe
2. Fantastic Four
3. We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us
4. Assorted Crisis Events
5. Spectators
6. Those Not Afraid
7. The Ultimate Universe
8. Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu
9. The Power Fantasy
10. Immortal/Mortal Thor
11. Batman
12. Impostor Syndicate
13. Transformers
14. Captain America
15. Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League
Worst (in no particular order)
Hush 2
Most Anticipated in 2026 (in no particular order)
The End of (this) Ultimate Universe
Daredevil Relaunch
Books
James by Percival Everett
Show, Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man by Paul Newman
The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
Woodworking by Emily St. James
Reboot by Justin Taylor
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus
Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen
How to Seal Your Own Fate by Kristen Perrin
The Trap by Ava Glass
Home Team: Minor League Baseball's Most Off-the-Wall Team Names and the Stories Behind Them by Tim Hagerty
Worst (in no particular order)
Next to Heaven by James Frey
Most Anticipated in 2026 (in no particular order)
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead