Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
MJ Franklin: Favorite Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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The 15 Best Books of 2020: Constance Grady: Vox

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The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
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 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Devotional The Lord † Petra Haden
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The French Press Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Boom Town Sam Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
Lateness of Dancers Hiss Golden Messenger
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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