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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Portrait of My Heart

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Favorite Albums of 2025: Grace Robins-Somerville
Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2025: Under the Radar
The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Heart the Lover Lily King
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Succession
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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