Year-End Lists

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

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The 25 Best Films of 2025: David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025: Sight & Sound
The Best Books of 2025: Economist
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Lists

Best Television of 2022: Passerby
Best of TV 2021: Inkoo Kang: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
2025 Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Boom Town Sam Anderson
John Candy: I Like Me Colin Hanks
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Marriage Story Noah Baumbach
Getting Killed Geese
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Paradiso XXXI, 108 Kamal Aljafari
Bleeds Wednesday
Virtuoso Valee and Harry Fraud
YU Rosie Lowe
Outside Noise Ted Fendt

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