Year-End Lists

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

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The Best Movies of 2025: Wall Street Journal: Kyle Smith
The Best Films of 2025: New Yorker: Richard Brody
The 25 Best Films of 2025: David Ehrlich
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Curtis Chin

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
- Boston Globe: Books We Loved in 2023

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall

Trending Works

The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Truly, Madly Stephen Galloway
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Babygirl Halina Reijn
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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