Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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David Rapp

Tinker to Evers to Chance
- Favorite Books of 2018: Smithsonian

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
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 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Getting Killed Geese
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
Shock Test…A Night of Truth: Bill Hicks & Timothy McVeigh Meet at Waco w/ Guest Lecturers: William Cooper & Ted Kaczynski Sean Kilpatrick
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Shakedown Double Virgo
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins

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