Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Balzac's Lives

by Peter Brooks

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The Best Books We Read in 2020: New Yorker

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The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
-io Circuit Des Yeux
What the Constitution Means to Me Marielle Heller
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Cometh The Storm High On Fire
Fatigue L'Rain
Passages Ira Sachs
Sun Cat Power
Idlewild James Frankie Thomas
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists

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