Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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On the Battlefield
- Twenty-One Experimental Films That Defined 2024: Michael Sicinski

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Alpha Julia Ducournau
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Stillness in Wonderland Little Simz
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold

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