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
Them: The 10 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy

Blow the Man Down
1. Top 25 Films of 2020: Robert Daniels
2. My Favorite Movies of 2020: Sean Fennessey

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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