Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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100 Favorite Metal Albums of the 2010s: A.A. Dowd

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100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2025 Them
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
10 Best Films of 2020 James Quandt · Artforum
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

Trending Works

Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Lana Del Rey
Yon Loader Yon Loader
Birdeater Jack Clark and Jim Weir
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
O, Brittle Weather! Drunk Uncle
What of Our Nature Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover
Poog Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
The Heart-Shaped Tin Bee Wilson
Andor

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