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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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The Ten Year Affair
- 43 Favorite Books of 2025: Lit Hub
- The 35 Best Books of 2025: Adam Morgan: Esquire
Stay Up with Hugo Best
- The Best Novels of 2019: Vogue

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Alpha Julia Ducournau
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
A Man on the Inside
CODA Sian Heder
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Get Out Jordan Peele
What We Can Know Ian McEwan

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