Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
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by Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin

Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2020: Alissa Wilkinson: Vox

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of the Decade (2010-2019) Jonathan Rosenbaum
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

The Loneliest Planet Julia Loktev
Avengers: Endgame Anthony and Joe Russo
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Finest Hotel in Kabul Lyse Doucet
The Galleons Rick Barot
LP Big Stick
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez
Crossroads Jonathan Franzen
Javelin Sufjan Stevens
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
I'm Still Here Walter Salles

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