Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Circumstantial Pleasures
- Best Movies of 2020: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
- Top 25 Films of 2020: In Review Online
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Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Zbig Edward Luce
King of Kings Scott Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Resurrection Bi Gan
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Motherland Julia Ioffe
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo

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