Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The 50 Best Albums Of 2025: Stereogum
Favorite Albums of 2025: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
Top 55 Albums of 2025: Brooklyn Vegan
Top 30 Albums of 2025: Jordan Cronk

20 Best Albums of 2025: Glide
My Favorite Albums of 2025: Kelsie Herzog: The Yellow Button
The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
10 Best Books of 2017 Library Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Pillion Harry Lighton
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Blade Runner 2049 Denis Villeneuve
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna
American Prison Shane Bauer
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Alienist
American Eden Victoria Johnson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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