Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Barbara Klein Moss

The Language of Paradise
- 2015 First Novel Prize: The Center for Fiction

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Unseen Truth Sarah Lewis
Weapons Zach Cregger
Getting Killed Geese
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Perfect Neighbor Geeta Gandbhir
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Like Cattle Towards Glow Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Kahlil Joseph
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews

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