Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee
Sentences and Rain Elaine Equi
Mother Emanuel Kevin Sack
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Known and Strange Things Teju Cole
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
Death Farm Carl Hauck
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar

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