Year-End Lists

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

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IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Cowboy Poet Madman Outlaw

Selected Poems 1987-2020

by Val Kilmer

Lists

Best Books of 2021: Passerby

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire

Trending Works

Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
L'Aventura Sophie Letourneur
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Weapons Zach Cregger
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Alpha Julia Ducournau
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Hour of the Predator Giuliano da Empoli
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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