Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Spider-Man: No Way Home

by Jon Watts

Lists

Best 20 Films of 2021: Sarah Knight Adamson
The 10 Best Movies of 2021: Brian Truitt: USA Today

Top 10 Films of 2021: Screen Queens
The Ten Best Films of 2021: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid

Trending Lists

The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Songbird Waylon Jennings
Defiance: Fighting the Far Right
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Good Mothers
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Path of Totality Niina Pollari
Border Vista Anni Liu
The Golden Bachelor
Boom Town Sam Anderson
In the Same Light Wong May (translator)
A Pillow Book Suzanne Buffam
All The Poems Stevie Smith
Fallen Angels Bob Dylan
Mutual Interest Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

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