Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
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Men Go to Battle

by Zachary Treitz

Lists

35 Best Movies of 2016: Richard Brody: New Yorker

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Books of 2021 Michael Silverblatt · KCRW
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Fingernails Christos Nikou
The Devil's Plan
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Idlewild Idlewild
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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