Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

Best TV Shows of 2025: Kelly Lawler: USA Today
The Best TV Of 2025 With Lesbian, Queer Women and Trans Characters: Autostraddle
Best TV Shows of 2025: Nora Dominick: BuzzFeed

The 10 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of 2025: Them

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
10 Best Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Favorite Books of 2019 Smithsonian
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
American Prison Shane Bauer
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Common Side Effects
The Lowdown
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
American Eden Victoria Johnson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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