Year-End Lists

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

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Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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1. The Best Movies of 2020: Nick Schager: Esquire
- Notable Films of 2020: Glenn Kenny
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- Best Films of 2018: Glenn Kenny

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Films of 2022 David Sims · Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Best Albums of 2011 Paste
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
50 Best Albums of 2012 Mojo
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Questlove
20 Days in Mariupol Mstyslav Chernov
Brat Charli XCX
XXX Danny Brown
No Exit Damien Power
Poor Things Yorgos Lanthimos
Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda
TransAtlantic Colum McCann
Mines Menomena
Andor
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Both/And Denne Michele Norris (editor)

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