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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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by Daniel Avery

Lists

The 80 Best Albums of 2022: PopMatters
Albums of the Year 2022: Loud And Quiet

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Resurrection Bi Gan
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
April Déa Kulumbegashvili

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