Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2026
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Lana & Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer

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- Top 5 Films of 2012: Charles Gant: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
Fiction 2026 National Book Award
Fiction 2026 Women's Prize
The Best Books of 2024 Economist

Trending Works

The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
Avatar: The Way of Water James Cameron
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch

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