Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Les Inrocks: Our Top Films of 2025
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Lists

Ten Best Films of 2023: Michael J. Anderson
Best Films of 2024: Eric Hynes: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2024: In Review Online
Top 50 Films of 2024: Film Stage

The 25 Best Films of 2024: Slant
The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024: A.S. Hamrah: n+1
Top Ten Films of 2023: Jordan Cronk

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2020 A.O. Scott · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2021 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Heart, Be at Peace Donal Ryan
Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams Patterson Hood
Wolfwalkers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
Bottoms Emma Seligman
Sinners Ryan Coogler
More Pulp
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
In the Days of Jupiter Lights Out Asia
By the Stream Hong Sang-soo
Foretold
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Sex Education
Die paste, die wrong Gerard Herman
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler

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