Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Ann Hornaday: Washington Post: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
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Trending Lists

Top 10 Albums of 2011 Claire Suddath · Time
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 40 Albums of 2025 Decibel
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
XXX Danny Brown
Paper Girl Beth Macy
U R HERE Honesty
A Seat at the Table Solange
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Be the Cowboy Mitski
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Suspicious Minds
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim

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