Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Albums of the Year 2020: Quietus

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Clean Slate
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
The Sunshine Place
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Sly Thom Zimny
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Blue Moon Richard Linklater

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