Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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1. The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple
- The Best Books Of 2020: Bustle
- The Best Books of the Year 2020: Lindsay Baker: BBC: BBC Culture

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

Trending Works

See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Weapons Zach Cregger
Sinners Ryan Coogler
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Adam Curtis
World’s Strongest Man Gaz Coombes
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Spotlight: Snitch City
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

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