Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Slant: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Microbe & Gasoline

by Michel Gondry

Lists

The Best Films of 2016: J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire

Trending Works

Resurrection Bi Gan
Motherland Julia Ioffe
Zbig Edward Luce
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
King of Kings Scott Anderson
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

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