Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The Patience

by Mick Jenkins

Lists

The Best Albums of 2023: The Line of Best Fit

The 50 Best Albums of 2023: NPR: NPR Music
The 60 Best Albums of 2023: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
Boom Town Sam Anderson
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Weapons Zach Cregger
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke

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