Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Lucky Breaks

by Yevgenia Belorusets

Lists

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Benoit Rouilly
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Graduation Cristian Mungiu
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
A Thousand and One A.V. Rockwell
The White Lotus, season 2 Mike White
Resurrection Bi Gan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Snap Judgment: A Tiny Plot
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Spotlight: Snitch City
Pluribus
Parasite Bong Joon-ho
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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