Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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The Worst Ones

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Lists

Best Films of 2022: Elena Lazic: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Top Ten Films of 2022: Clémence Polès Farhang

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Urchin Harris Dickinson
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately Perfume Genius
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
The Antidote Karen Russell
Cleanness Garth Greenwell
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
(III) Crystal Castles
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman

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