Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Doomed Romance

Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America

by Christine Leigh Heyrman

Lists

100 Notable Books of 2021: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 10 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2025 Them
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
10 Best Films of 2020 James Quandt · Artforum
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Why Q Needs U Danny Bate
Yon Loader Yon Loader
Poog Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
Birdeater Jack Clark and Jim Weir
What of Our Nature Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
The Girlfriends
Swirl Flora Hibberd
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Lana Del Rey
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
The Heart-Shaped Tin Bee Wilson
Still Life Kevin Morby

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