Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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Ghais Guevara

The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!!
1. Favorite Albums of 2025: Grace Robins-Somerville
Goyard Ibn Said
There Will Be No Super--Slave
1. Top 50 Albums of 2022: Beats Per Minute

Trending Lists

Top Tens 2025 Fighting in the War Room
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Francesca David Murray Quartet
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
The Sunshine Place
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Sly Thom Zimny
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Oracle Cate Marvin

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