Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
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The Two Sights

by Joshua Bonnetta

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The 50 Best Films of 2021: Slant

Top 10 Films of 2020: Dennis Lim: Film Society of Lincoln Center

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Dolly Parton's America
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Tiny Dinos
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Pivot
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Staying Vertical Alain Guiraudie
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
Alpha Julia Ducournau

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