Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Top 10 Films of 2024: Ryan Swen
Top 50 Films of 2024: Film Stage
Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll

Best Films of 2025: Benoit Rouilly
Best Movies of 2024: Manohla Dargis: New York Times

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2025 Les Inrocks
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Slow West John Maclean
Good Living Is Coming For You Sweeping Promises
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Getting Killed Geese
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Face Down in the Garden Tennis
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
Lurker Alex Russell
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Second Mansions Le Concorde

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