Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Brother Ali

All the Beauty in This Whole Life
- The 110 Best Albums of the 2010s: Albumism
Mourning in America
- 25 Best Albums of 2012: Death and Taxes

Trending Lists

Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Francesca David Murray Quartet
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Idlewild Idlewild
Clean Slate
The Sunshine Place
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sly Thom Zimny
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs

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