Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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The Aviator and the Showman

Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon

by Laurie Gwen Shapiro

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The 30 Best Books of 2025: New York Post

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork

Trending Works

A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Weapons Zach Cregger
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Last Summer Catherine Breillat
Blackstar David Bowie
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
Fragments for Venus Alice Diop

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