Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best Books of 2025: Economist

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of the 2010s RogerEbert.com
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu
We Lived on the Horizon Erika Swyler
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Adults
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
What Does It Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
James Blake James Blake
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Dark Times Vince Staples
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri

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