Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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Final Destination 5
- Top 10 Films of 2011: Ed Gonzalez: Slant
- Top 10 Films of 2011: Nick Pinkerton

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope

Trending Works

Francesca David Murray Quartet
Sly Thom Zimny
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Clean Slate
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Liars Sarah Manguso
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Fingernails Christos Nikou
The Sunshine Place
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Idlewild Idlewild
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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