Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Susan Wheeler

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Top 40 Poetry Books of 2012: Coldfront

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Movies of 2023 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2024 Economist

Trending Works

The Sunshine Place
Clean Slate
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Diamond Eyes Deftones
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sly Thom Zimny
Idlewild Idlewild
Liars Sarah Manguso
Oracle Cate Marvin
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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