Year-End Lists

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

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Michael Sicinski: Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Man Without a Face

by Masha Gessen

Lists

7 Favorite Books of 2012: Tina Brown: Daily Beast

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
A Very English Scandal
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Interview with the Vampire
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Bone Valley
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram

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