Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Slant: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Craig Jenkins: New York: The Best Albums of 2025
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Where the Axe Is Buried
- The 35 Best Books of 2025: Adam Morgan: Esquire
The Mountain in the Sea
- The 10 Best Books of 2022: Laura Miller: Slate

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2023 The Wire
The Best Albums of 2025 Craig Jenkins · New York · Vulture
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Resurrection Bi Gan
Certified Copy Abbas Kiarostami
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade Of Monsters and Men
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
‘Til Madness Do Us Part Wang Bing
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Li’l Quinquin Bruno Dumont

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