Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple

20 Best Books of 2020: O Magazine
Top 10 Books of 2020: New York Public Library

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
False Lankum Lankum
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
House of Huawei Eva Dou
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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