Year-End Lists

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

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Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Emperor of Rome
- The Best Books of 2023: Economist
Twelve Caesars
- Best Nonfiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews
SPQR
- The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Twinless James Sweeney
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Till Chinonye Chukwu
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai

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