Year-End Lists

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

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The Return

by Nathaniel Dorsky

Lists

Best Films of 2011: Manohla Dargis: New York Times

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 Matt Singer · ScreenCrush
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology Willie Dunn
Past Lives Celine Song
Heavy Metal Cameron Winter
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Victorian Psycho Virginia Feito
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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