Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2022
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
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Writing on Life, Art, and the World

by Anne Enright

Appears on two lists

Best Books of 2025: Martin Chilton: Independent

The Observer's Books of the Year 2025: Observer

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Weapons Zach Cregger
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Fragments for Venus Alice Diop
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Last Summer Catherine Breillat
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni

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