Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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by Dorthe Nors

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Best Fiction of 2014: Powell's Books

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The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Passages Ira Sachs
Sinners Ryan Coogler
-io Circuit Des Yeux
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall
Getting Killed Geese
Fatigue L'Rain
What the Constitution Means to Me Marielle Heller
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Renaissance Beyoncé

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