Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Best Movies of 2021: Joe Morgenstern: Wall Street Journal

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Liars Sarah Manguso
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Idlewild Idlewild
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
The Sunshine Place
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Blue Moon Richard Linklater

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