Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, and Steve Swallow

Life Goes On
- The Best in 2020 Music: Steve Erickson: GCN

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Idlewild Idlewild
Liars Sarah Manguso
Clean Slate
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
The Sunshine Place
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Oracle Cate Marvin
Sly Thom Zimny
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs

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