Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Strangers and Cousins

by Leah Hager Cohen

Lists

Best Books of 2019: Washington Post

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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