Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

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The Best TV Shows That Premiered in 2022: The Mary Sue

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Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

Trending Works

My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Kahlil Joseph
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
Like Cattle Towards Glow Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Boom Town Sam Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Weapons Zach Cregger
The Unseen Truth Sarah Lewis
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade

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