Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Sentences and Rain

by Elaine Equi

Lists

16 Best Poetry Books of 2015: BuzzFeed

23 Favorite Poetry Books of 2015: Dennis Cooper

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Oracle Cate Marvin
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Idlewild Idlewild
Sly Thom Zimny
The Sunshine Place
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Liars Sarah Manguso
Clean Slate
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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