Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films 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

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2017 Library Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Pillion Harry Lighton
Boom Town Sam Anderson
American Eden Victoria Johnson
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Succession
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
American Prison Shane Bauer
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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