Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Booker Prize: 2026 Award
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2024 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2022 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2021 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 10 Films of 2020 Film Society of Lincoln Center
Top 5 Films of 2017 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Favorite Films of 2017 Film Society of Lincoln Center

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Screen Slate
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2026 Award The Booker Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork

Trending Works

The Year of Cat Mostafa Taghizadeh
Cu Li Never Cries Phạm Ngọc Lân
12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen
I’m So Fine Khadijah Queen
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Damned Roberto Minervini
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Brittle Age Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart
Who Cares? Alexe Poukine

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