Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
- 20 Best Movies of 2012: Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
- Best Films of 2011: Sam Adams: A.V. Club

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
We the People Jill Lepore
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig

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