Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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60 Best Albums of 2017: PopMatters

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Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Weapons Zach Cregger
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Mountainhead Jesse Armstrong
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Idlewild Idlewild
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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