Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Dot Devota and Caitie Moore

Dept. of Posthumous Letters
1. Best Books of 2018: Entropy

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best TV Shows of 2023 Judy Berman · Time
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Mountainhead Jesse Armstrong
Idlewild Idlewild
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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