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
Stephanie Zacharek: Time: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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- Best Books of 2024: New York Public Library
- Best Poetry of 2024: New York Public Library

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Stephanie Zacharek · Time
The Best Movies of 2021 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Best Albums of 2018 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant

Trending Works

Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Ash is Purest White Jia Zhang-ke
Inside Llewyn Davis Joel & Ethan Coen
‘Til Madness Do Us Part Wang Bing
Certified Copy Abbas Kiarostami
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Tabu Miguel Gomes
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Stage Four Touché Amoré
XXX Danny Brown

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