Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Mary Queen of Scots
- 2018’s Best Films By and About Women: Women and Hollywood
- The Best Movies of 2018: Cary Darling: Chron

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Renaissance Beyoncé
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Get Out Jordan Peele
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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