Year-End Lists

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

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
MJ Franklin: Favorite Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Best Movies of 2021: A.O. Scott: New York Times

Best Movies of 2021: Manohla Dargis: New York Times

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
What the Constitution Means to Me Marielle Heller
-io Circuit Des Yeux
Fatigue L'Rain
Passages Ira Sachs
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Renaissance Beyoncé
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sun Cat Power
Getting Killed Geese
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
A Most Violent Year J.C. Chandor

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