Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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1. The 20 Best Books of 2016: Entertainment Weekly

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Poetry Collections of 2019 Washington Post
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
Clean Slate
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Oracle Cate Marvin
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Liars Sarah Manguso
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
The Sunshine Place

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