Year-End Lists

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

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Top 10 Films of 2025: Ryan Swen
The Best Movies of 2025: Wall Street Journal: Kyle Smith
The Best Books of 2025: New Yorker
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Helen DeWitt

The English Understand Wool
- The 10 Best Books of 2022: Dan Kois: Slate
Some Trick
- San Francisco Chronicle: 100 Recommended Books of 2018

Trending Lists

The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Babygirl Halina Reijn
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Truly, Madly Stephen Galloway
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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