Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The 45 Best New Books of 2023: Harper’s Bazaar

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Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
XXX Danny Brown
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
The Antidote Karen Russell
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Getting Killed Geese

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