Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lawrence Michael Levine

Black Bear
- Top 25 Films of 2020: Robert Daniels
Wild Canaries
1. 30 Best Movies of 2015: Richard Brody: New Yorker

Trending Lists

Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Get Out Jordan Peele
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
More Love, Less Ego Wizkid
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Alpha Julia Ducournau

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