Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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- The Best Books of 2024: Economist
- 2024 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Spotlight: Snitch City
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Twinless James Sweeney
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Till Chinonye Chukwu
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Aethiopes Billy Woods
Evangeline vs. the Machine Eric Church
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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