Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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German Blood, Slavic Soil
- The Best of Books 2023: Foreign Affairs

Trending Lists

50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
CODA Sian Heder
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
A Man on the Inside
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Get Out Jordan Peele
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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