Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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by Joe Swanberg

Lists

Top 15 Films of 2014: Nathan Rabin: The Dissolve

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

When We Were Birds Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Maps to the Stars David Cronenberg
Universal Language Matthew Rankin
Because the Boss Belongs to Us
Invisible Child Andrea Elliott
The Souvenir Joanna Hogg
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
Quo Vadis, Aida? Jasmila Žbanić
Top Doll Karen McCarthy Woolf
Trainwreck Judd Apatow
Common Side Effects
Adults
This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud

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