Year-End Lists

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

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Ben Kenigsberg: RogerEbert.com: Top Ten Films of 2025
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Lee Cole

Fulfillment
- Best Novels of 2025: Electric Lit
Groundskeeping
1. The Best Books of 2022: Esquire
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022: Washington Post

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

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

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