Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Jourdain Searles: Best Black Films of the 2010s
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2024
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1. Best Films of 2025: Mark Kermode

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Films of 2025 Film Stage
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
Top Ten Films of 2021 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Albums of 2025 Les Inrocks
Best Black Films of the 2010s Jourdain Searles
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
The 20 Best Books of 2025 Town & Country
The 100 Best Albums of 2022 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2018 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
43 Favorite Books of 2025 Lit Hub
The 30 Best TV Shows of 2021 Paste

Trending Works

Shade Grouper
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Really Love Angel Kristi Williams
The Rest Boygenius
The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlic
I Decided Big Sean
Kingdoms Fort Romeau
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Martin McDonagh
Staying Vertical Alain Guiraudie
The History of the Seattle Mariners Jon Bois
The Taking Alexandre O. Philippe
Enter the Misanthropocene Abhorrent Expanse
Georgia Swan Sundelles
Fragments of Kubelka Martina Kudlacek

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