Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Cathy Yan

Birds of Prey
- Best Movies of 2020: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
- The Best Movies of 2020: Joshua Rivera: Verge

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Allies at War Tim Bouverie
Getting Killed Geese
Highway Thirteen Fiona McFarlane
Jen Cloher Jen Cloher
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Arctic Passages Kieran Mulvaney
The CIA Book Club Charlie English
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Strange Hearts Secret Cities

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