Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
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Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

LP Big Stick
The Loneliest Planet Julia Loktev
Crossroads Jonathan Franzen
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Galleons Rick Barot
Avengers: Endgame Anthony and Joe Russo
Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Javelin Sufjan Stevens
The Finest Hotel in Kabul Lyse Doucet
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez

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