Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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- Best Movies Directed By Women in 2018: Valerie Ettenhofer: Film School Rejects
- Best Black Films of the 2010s: Jourdain Searles

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
XXX Danny Brown
The Galleons Rick Barot
Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
The Lowdown
Passages Ira Sachs
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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