Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Real Boston Richey

Public Housing, Pt. 2
- The Best Hip-Hop Projects of 2023: XXL

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha

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