Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Hanif Abdurraqib: 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
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Languages of Home

Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975–2025

by John Edgar Wideman

Lists

The Best Books of 2025: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Looper Rian Johnson
False Lankum Lankum
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Her Spike Jonze
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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