Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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by Rachel Yoder

Lists

The Best Books of 2021: Hillary Kelly: New York: Vulture

The Best Books of 2021: Thrillist
Favorite Novels of 2021: Electric Lit
The 50 Best Books of 2021: Esquire

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
XXX Danny Brown
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Suspicious Minds
Paper Girl Beth Macy
Adolescence
U R HERE Honesty
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel

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