Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Next Picture Show: Our Top Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The 50 Best Podcasts of 2021: Atlantic

The Best Podcasts of 2021: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
XXX Danny Brown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Getting Killed Geese
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Holy Motors Leos Carax
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Dying for Sex
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt

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