Year-End Lists

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

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Best Movies of 2025: New York Times: Manohla Dargis
Nonfiction 2025: Kirkus Reviews
Top 10 Films of 2025: Cahiers du Cinéma
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2025 Albums of the Year
Albums of the Year 2023
Albums of 2022
Best Albums of 2021
Albums of 2020
16 Albums That Shaped 2016
Albums of 2011

Trending Lists

The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win

Trending Works

Bleeds Wednesday
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Virtuoso Valee and Harry Fraud
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Truly, Madly Stephen Galloway
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Babygirl Halina Reijn
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra

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