Year-End Lists

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

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Boston Globe: The Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel

Lists

Top 50 Movies of 2023: Jessica Kiang
Best Films of 2023: Vadim Rizov: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 100 Albums of 2017 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Movies of 2020 Empire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Dying for Sex
Tonight in Jungleland Peter Ames Carlin
Magellan Lav Diaz
Kiff
The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
XXX Danny Brown
War for the Planet of the Apes Matt Reeves
Lese Majesty Shabazz Palaces
Amandaland
The Ugly Stepsister Emilie Blichfeldt
Maffia
Health and Safety Emily Witt

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