Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Shock Test…A Night of Truth: Bill Hicks & Timothy McVeigh Meet at Waco w/ Guest Lecturers: William Cooper & Ted Kaczynski Sean Kilpatrick
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Edna Martinez Presents Picó: Sound System Culture from the Colombian Caribbean various artists
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins
Getting Killed Geese

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