Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Dereck Joubert

The Last Lions
- Favorite Films of 2011: Dennis Harvey: San Francisco Bay Guardian

Trending Lists

Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Soi Cheang
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Tár Todd Field
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Urchin Harris Dickinson

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