Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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