Year-End Lists

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

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David Sims: Atlantic: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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How Beautiful We Were
Behold the Dreamers
- 100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top Ten Films of 2025 Tasha Robinson · The Next Picture Show
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show

Trending Works

Long Story Short
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
XXX Danny Brown
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
How to Have Sex Molly Manning Walker
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski

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