Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Christina Pugh

Lists

8 Best Poetry Books of 2017: Chicago Review of Books

Trending Lists

Top 100 Albums of 2011 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Poetry Collections of 2025 Electric Lit
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone

Trending Works

The Lowdown
The Antidote Karen Russell
Cleanness Garth Greenwell
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Weekend Andrew Haigh
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
(III) Crystal Castles
God Save The Gun Militarie Gun
Songs Deptford Goth
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman

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