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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Best Fiction of 2016: Powell's Books
2016 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness

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The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
XXX Danny Brown
Holy Motors Leos Carax
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha

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