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
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Electric Spark

The Enigma of Dame Muriel

by Frances Wilson

Lists

Best Books of 2025: Martin Chilton: Independent

The Best Books of 2025: Economist
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Idlewild Idlewild
Liars Sarah Manguso
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Oracle Cate Marvin
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Clean Slate
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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