Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The Harder They Fall
- The Best Movies of 2021: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
- The Ten Best Films of 2021: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane
American Crime Story
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Hi Texas
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Face Down in the Garden Tennis
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
I Swear Kirk Jones
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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