Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Clarisse Loughrey: Independent: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Top 50 Albums of 2021: The Wire

Trending Lists

80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
The 55 Best TV Shows of the 2010s BuzzFeed
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Rental Family Hikari
One Year: 1977
1989 Taylor Swift
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Interior Live Oak Cass McCombs
American: An Odyssey to 1947 Danny Wu
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Le Kov Gwenno
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel

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