Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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50 Best Albums of 2025
Best 50 Releases of 2024
Top 55 Releases of 2023
Top 50 Albums of 2022
Top 50 Albums of 2018
Top 50 Releases of 2017

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The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Portal Balu Brigada
I Love My Computer Ninajirachi
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Chair Company
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
The Ghost of Orion My Dying Bride
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Pitt
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
What We Spend
Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection Dril

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