Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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The Annihilation of Fish

by Charles Burnett

Lists

Top Ten Films of 2025: Ben Kenigsberg: RogerEbert.com

Best Movies of 2025: Manohla Dargis: New York Times

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Pivot
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
Staying Vertical Alain Guiraudie
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Tiny Dinos

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