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
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Shehan Karunatilaka

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll

Trending Works

A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Alpha Julia Ducournau
L'Aventura Sophie Letourneur
Weapons Zach Cregger
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
XXX Danny Brown
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Antidote Karen Russell
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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