Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
John Waters: New York: The Best Movies of 2025
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The Great Lakes Suite
1. Top 50 Albums of 2014: The Wire
Ten Freedom Summers
- 50 Favorite Albums of 2012: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top Ten Films of 2025 Tasha Robinson · The Next Picture Show
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Getting Killed Geese
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
XXX Danny Brown
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Dying for Sex

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