Year-End Lists

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

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Eliza McCarthy & Mica Levi

Slow Dark Green Murky Waterfall
- Music I Enjoyed in 2018: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

Diamond Eyes Deftones
Liars Sarah Manguso
The Sunshine Place
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Oracle Cate Marvin
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Clean Slate
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Idlewild Idlewild

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