Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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New York Post: The 30 Best Books of 2025
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Ten Best Films of 2020: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Sight & Sound Poll

Best Films of 2020: Steve Erickson: GCN
Top 10 Films of 2020: Dennis Lim: Film Society of Lincoln Center

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Read Until You Understand Farah Jasmine Griffin
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Hail and Farewell Abby E. Murray
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
Fierce Poise Alexander Nemerov
Frighten the Horses Oliver Radclyffe
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Song of the Cell Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
The Gossip Columnist's Daughter Peter Orner
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
Moonlight Barry Jenkins
Love in Exile Shon Faye

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