Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: 'Phony Wars'

by Jean-Luc Godard

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25 Great Experimental Films of 2023: Michael Sicinski

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100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Getting Killed Geese
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The CIA Book Club Charlie English
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Jen Cloher Jen Cloher
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Strange Hearts Secret Cities
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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