Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Yaron Zilberman

Lists

The 15 Best Movies of 2020: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel
Best Movies of 2019: Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue
Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
XXX Danny Brown
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Dead Kings Of Europe Plastic Bag
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
My Brother, My Land Sami Hermez with Sireen Sawalha
The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis Jeffrey Lewis
Unnecessary Riffness Red Sun & Bonus
Big Boys
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle Arthur Harari

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