Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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1. 20 Best Films of 2012: Matt Singer: IndieWire
- Top 25 Narrative Films of 2012: Dennis Harvey: San Francisco Bay Guardian

Trending Lists

2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online

Trending Works

Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Arctic Passages Kieran Mulvaney
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Pluribus
Strange Hearts Secret Cities
Getting Killed Geese
Highway Thirteen Fiona McFarlane
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Allies at War Tim Bouverie
Jen Cloher Jen Cloher
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier

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