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
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Love at the Bottom of the Sea

by The Magnetic Fields

Lists

100 Favourite Albums of 2012: Drowned in Sound
Top 102 Albums of 2012: Robert Christgau: Barnes & Noble Review

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Galleons Rick Barot
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
XXX Danny Brown
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Passages Ira Sachs
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Teenage Matt Wolf

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