Year-End Lists

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

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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1. Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2018: Entropy

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The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
25 Best Films of 2025 A.V. Club
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Best Albums of 2018 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Beanpole Kantemir Balagov
Special Lizzo
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Now Jazz Now Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson, and Thurston Moore
In the Dark
Baby I'm the Wolf Ha Vay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
A Star Is Born Soundtrack Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Dinner in America Adam Rehmeier

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