Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2026
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Adult Material

by Dawn Shadforth

Appears on two lists

15 The 50 Best TV Show of 2020: Guardian
15 The Best Television Series of 2020: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound TV Poll

Trending Lists

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Fiction 2026 National Book Award
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The Best Albums of 2020 The Ringer
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Movies of 2025 Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2024 Economist

Trending Works

Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
The Tsugua Diaries Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus

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