Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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- The 50 Best Books of 2021: Esquire
- Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews
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- Fiction 2018: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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