Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Best Poetry of 2020: Elisa Gabbert: New York Times: New York Times

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The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Hour of the Predator Giuliano da Empoli
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
L'Aventura Sophie Letourneur
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Alpha Julia Ducournau

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