Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The Minus 5

Oar On, Penelope!
1. Best Albums of 2025: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stroke Manor
1. Top 25 Albums of 2019: Magnet

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Sinners Ryan Coogler

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