Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Indignation
- 20 Best Movies of 2016: David Edelstein: New York: Vulture
- Top Ten Films of 2016: Seongyong Cho: RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Pavements Alex Ross Perry
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Alpha Julia Ducournau
American Prison Shane Bauer
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King

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