Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

Top 30 Movies of 2014 Grantland
Top 27 Movies of 2013 Grantland
Top 25 Movies of 2012 Boston Globe
Top Movies of 2011 Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Paste
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Albums of 2025 NPR · NPR Music
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Horse Money Pedro Costa
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Lights Out
Babes Pamela Adlon
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Looper Rian Johnson
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Tatsuya Yoshihara
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Margin Call J.C. Chandor
Pain to Power Maruja

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