Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Baby (Being a black youth)
1. The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020: Hip Hop Golden Age

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

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

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