Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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by Laila Lalami

Lists

Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction: BookPage

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Weapons Zach Cregger
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Lurker Alex Russell

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