Year-End Lists

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

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Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Christopher Beha

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
- Best Literary Fiction of 2020: Library Journal
- Fiction 2020: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
2025 Dublin Literary Award

Trending Works

Spotlight: Snitch City
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Twinless James Sweeney
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Till Chinonye Chukwu
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Boom Town Sam Anderson
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Universal Themes Sun Kil Moon
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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