Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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by Carmen Giménez Smith

Lists

Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2019: Entropy

The Best Poetry Collections of 2019: Washington Post
Poetry 2019: National Book Award

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Resurrection Bi Gan
April Déa Kulumbegashvili
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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