Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Benjamin Markovits

The Rest of Our Lives
- 2025 Award: The Booker Prize
- Best Fiction of 2025: Maria Crawford: Financial Times

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Interview with the Vampire
Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Deep Water Adrian Lyne
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
A Very English Scandal
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