Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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by Arthur Jafa

Lists

Best Films of 2024: J Hoberman: Artforum

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Vida
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Thresholder Ian William Craig
Splitsville Michael Angelo Covino
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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