Year-End Lists

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Dialogues On Race, Vol. 1

by Gregg August

Lists

Best Albums of 2020: AllMusic

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
King of Kings Scott Anderson
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Motherland Julia Ioffe
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Zbig Edward Luce

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