Year-End Lists

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

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The 20 Best Movies of 2025: Rolling Stone: David Fear
Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey
The 15 Best Films of 2025: USA Today: Cory Woodroof
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75 Best Albums of 2018: Uncut

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
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
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
Virtuoso Valee and Harry Fraud
Bleeds Wednesday
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Babygirl Halina Reijn
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Truly, Madly Stephen Galloway

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