Year-End Lists

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

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The Best Books of 2025: Economist
Best Movies of 2025: New York Times: Manohla Dargis
The Best Films of 2025: New Yorker: Richard Brody
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The Reason I Jump

by Jerry Rothwell

Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2021: Guardian

Trending Lists

The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Dylan Thomas Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win

Trending Works

Marriage Story Noah Baumbach
A Disposition To Be Rich Geoffrey C. Ward
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
Virtuoso Valee and Harry Fraud
Bleeds Wednesday
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Paradiso XXXI, 108 Kamal Aljafari
John Candy: I Like Me Colin Hanks
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Getting Killed Geese
YU Rosie Lowe

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