Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Into the Raging Sea

Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

by Rachel Slade

Lists

Best Books of 2018: Paste

100 Notable Books of 2018: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Alpha Julia Ducournau
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Getting Killed Geese
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
American Prison Shane Bauer
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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