Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Film Comment: Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Getting Killed Geese
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
XXX Danny Brown
Dying for Sex
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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