Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Max Cea: Esquire: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
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Max Hastings

Operation Pedestal
- Best Nonfiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews
Inferno
- 100 Notable Books of 2011: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2023 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Max Cea · Esquire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take

Trending Works

God on All Fours Edwin R Stevens
Syn Innode
Puissance 4 Maraudeur
Wayward
Human! Sound! —> & or the record i could never finish (even if i wanted to) Chris Olsen
Charlie’s Place
Rainbow: A Private Affair Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Touch Tortoise
The Chair Company
Through a Room Bill Nace
A Guidonian Hand Richard Skelton
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson

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