Year-End Lists

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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A Long Way To the Beginning

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50 Favorite Albums of 2014: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 In Review Online
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s Paste
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Illegals Shaun Walker
Forever, episode "Andre and Sarah"
Andor
April Déa Kulumbegashvili
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
XXX Danny Brown
Sinners Ryan Coogler
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Alpha Julia Ducournau
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Kahlil Joseph

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