Year-End Lists

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

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Ben Kenigsberg: RogerEbert.com: Top Ten Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Little Bosses Everywhere
- 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025: Washington Post

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The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
Thresholder Ian William Craig
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Vida
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Splitsville Michael Angelo Covino
Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists

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