Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Next Picture Show: Our Top Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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- 2025 Award: The Booker Prize
- The Best Books of 2025: Dazed
Assembly

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
Holy Motors Leos Carax
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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