Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Les Inrocks: Best Albums of 2025
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My Struggle

Book Five

by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Lists

100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle
Best Fiction of 2016: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Albums of 2025 Les Inrocks
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Rough and Rowdy Ways Bob Dylan
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Frontrunner Frontperson
It’s Album Time Todd Terje
Neither Heaven Nor Earth Clément Cogitore
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Minding the Gap Bing Liu
The Substance Coralie Fargeat
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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