Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by James Wan

Lists

Top 25 Films of 2021: In Review Online

The Best Films of 2021: Keith Phipps: The Reveal
The Ten Best Films of 2021: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
Best Films of 2021: Spectrum Culture

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Favorite Books of 2018 Smithsonian
The 10 Best Books of 2013 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2018 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
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Lowdown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
American Eden Victoria Johnson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie David Soren
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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