Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Nested in Tangles

by Hannah Frances

Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Our Culture
The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Treble
The Best Albums of 2025: No Ripcord
The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Paste
Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop

The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Succession
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra

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