Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
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Selby Wynn Schwartz

After Sappho

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Caught Stealing Darren Aronofsky
False Lankum Lankum
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland

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