Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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1. Best 50 Books of 2017: Joseph Salvatore: Brooklyn Rail

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
XXX Danny Brown
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Antidote Karen Russell
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson

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