Year-End Lists

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

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Still Pictures

On Photography and Memory

by Janet Malcolm

Lists

The Best Books of 2023: Economist

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Twinless James Sweeney
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Till Chinonye Chukwu
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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