Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Ad Astra James Gray
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Ice Tower Lucile Hadzihalilovic
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Saint Omer Alice Diop
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Southernmost Leo Boix
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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