Year-End Lists

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Best Films of 2025 WBUR
The 5 Best Films of 2024 WBUR
The Best Films of 2023 WBUR
Best Movies of 2018 WBUR · ARTery
Best Movies of 2017 WBUR · ARTery

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Getting Killed Geese
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
American Prison Shane Bauer

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