Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Steven Soderbergh

Lists

Top 12 Films of 2019: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader
Top 10 Films of 2019: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com
The Best Movies of 2019: Richard Brody: New Yorker

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
Motherland Julia Ioffe
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Zbig Edward Luce

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