Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The 22 Best Albums of 2022: KCRW

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Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency Chen Chen
Seven Empty Houses Samanta Schweblin
The Secret Gate Mitchell Zuckoff
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Silver Bullets Joe Swanberg
Run Me to Earth Paul Yoon
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
You're Weird Now Guerilla Toss
Palm Springs Max Barbakow
Getting Killed Geese
David Byrne's American Utopia Spike Lee
Tiny Empire Chatterton
Félicité Alain Gomis
The Invisible Man Leigh Whannell

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