Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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1. Best Books of 2025: USA Today
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1. Our Favorite Books of 2022: Oprah Daily

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
Caught Stealing Darren Aronofsky
House of Huawei Eva Dou
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
invisibility people-proof
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
EUSA Yann Tiersen
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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