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
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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A History of My Brief Body

by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Lists

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020: David Gutowski

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Boom Town Sam Anderson
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Lurker Alex Russell
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Weapons Zach Cregger
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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