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
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Cymbals Eat Guitars

Pretty Years
Lose
1. Top 50 Albums of 2014: Treble
2. Top 140 Albums of 2014: Under the Radar
Lenses Alien
1. Top Albums of 2011: Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune: Sound Opinions
2. Albums of 2011: DIY

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Zbig Edward Luce
Resurrection Bi Gan
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Motherland Julia Ioffe
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo

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