Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

The Best Movies of 2025: Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal
Best Movies of 2025: Lindsey Bahr: AP
The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Amy Nicholson: Los Angeles Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Entertainment Weekly

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Pivot
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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