Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Laura van den Berg

State of Paradise
- The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024: Time
- 21 Best Books of 2024: Vanity Fair
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
1. The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020: Time
The Third Hotel
1. Best Fiction Of 2018: Claire Fallon: HuffPost
2. Best Books of 2018: Entropy
Find Me
- 2015 First Novel Prize: The Center for Fiction

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Weapons Zach Cregger
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
World’s Strongest Man Gaz Coombes

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