Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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How to End a Story

Collected Diaries

by Helen Garner

Lists

The Best Books of 2025: Economist

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of the 2010s RogerEbert.com
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

We Lived on the Horizon Erika Swyler
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu
Dark Times Vince Staples
Adults
James Blake James Blake
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
What Does It Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex

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