Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Favorite Books of 2017: Alex Balk: Awl
10 Best Books of 2017: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
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
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Liars Sarah Manguso
Sly Thom Zimny
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Oracle Cate Marvin
The Sunshine Place

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