Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

One Child Nation

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

The Sunshine Place
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Idlewild Idlewild
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Clean Slate
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sly Thom Zimny
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas

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