Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The 30 Best Podcasts of the 2010s: Paste

The Best Podcasts of 2024: Town & Country
The Best Podcasts of 2020: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Resurrection Bi Gan
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Zbig Edward Luce
Motherland Julia Ioffe
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo

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