Year-End Lists

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

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Ten Best Films of 2020: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Sight & Sound Poll

Best Films of 2020: Steve Erickson: GCN
Top 10 Films of 2020: Dennis Lim: Film Society of Lincoln Center

Trending Lists

80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Sly Thom Zimny
The Sunshine Place
Clean Slate
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Liars Sarah Manguso
Idlewild Idlewild
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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