Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

Top 25 Albums of 2023: Magnet

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Motherland Julia Ioffe
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Zbig Edward Luce
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

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