Year-End Lists

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2026
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North by Current

by Angelo Madsen Minax

Appears on four lists

5 Best Films of 2021: Mackenzie Lukenbill: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
6 Best Films of 2021: Ren Scateni: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
9 Best Films of 2021: Jessica Green: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
11 Top 25 Movies of 2021: K. Austin Collins: Rolling Stone

Trending Lists

2026 Award The Booker Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s Paste
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award

Trending Works

Get Out Jordan Peele
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Kin Tayari Jones
Seeing Ghosts Kat Chow
Bolívar Marie Arana
Heron Oblivion Heron Oblivion
Good Times! The Monkees
The Call Yannick Murphy
Islah Kevin Gates
Spawning Season Joseph Osmundson
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 12th Edition
No Time for Dreaming Charles Bradley
Who Cares? Alexe Poukine
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman

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