Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Reason to Live

by Lou Barlow

Lists

The Best Albums of 2021: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
We the People Jill Lepore
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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