Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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2022 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

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Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Lurker Alex Russell
Weapons Zach Cregger
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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