Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
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Julie Klam

The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters
- 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Like Cattle Towards Glow Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley
Weapons Zach Cregger
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Getting Killed Geese
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Fault in Our Stars Josh Boone
The Unseen Truth Sarah Lewis
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Kahlil Joseph
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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