Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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by Abul Mogard

Lists

100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Films of 2025 Film Stage
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win

Trending Works

The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Text Me When You Get Home Kayleen Schaefer
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
Motherland Julia Ioffe
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Emails I Can't Send Sabrina Carpenter

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