Year-End Lists

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Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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by Watt Sun

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#49 75 Best Albums of 2011: PopMatters

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The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 Award The Booker Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Fiction of 2026 Goldsmiths Prize
Best Films of 2021 Robert Koehler · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
Best Films of 2016 Emily St. James · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
Whidbey T Kira Madden
Ruins, Child Giada Scodellaro
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
Said the Dead Doireann Ní Ghríofa
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
Kitten Stacey Yu

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