Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Chelsea Carmichael

The River Doesn’t Like Strangers
- 2022 in Music: Sasha Frere-Jones
- Best of 2021: AllMusic

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2022 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

On Falling Laura Carreira
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Getting Killed Geese
The Ice Tower Lucile Hadzihalilovic
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Saint Omer Alice Diop
The MANIAC Benjamin Labatut
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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