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
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Kapka Kassabova

To the Lake
- Best Nonfiction of 2020: Powell's Books
Border
- Favorite Books of 2017: Alex Balk: Awl

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
A Still Small Voice Luke Lorentzen
Idlewild Idlewild
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Splitsville Michael Angelo Covino
Vida

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