Year-End Lists

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

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Les Inrocks: Our Top Films of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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This Closeness

by Kit Zauhar

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Lists

Best Films of 2024: Lawrence Garcia: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
The 60 Best Movies of 2024: Max Cea: Esquire

The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024: A.S. Hamrah: n+1

Trending Lists

Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2020 A.O. Scott · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2021 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

Wolfwalkers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
More Pulp
Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista
Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams Patterson Hood
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
By the Stream Hong Sang-soo
Bottoms Emma Seligman
Heart, Be at Peace Donal Ryan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Sex Education
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Foretold
Rejection Tony Tulathimutte

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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