Year-End Lists

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

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Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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- The Best Books of 2024: Economist
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Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
2025 Dublin Literary Award

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Spotlight: Snitch City
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Twinless James Sweeney
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Till Chinonye Chukwu
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Evangeline vs. the Machine Eric Church
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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