Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The Art of Cruelty

A Reckoning

by Maggie Nelson

Lists

100 Notable Books of 2011: New York Times: New York Times
The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2019 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

2020 Richard Dawson
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Decision to Leave Park Chan-wook
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
Dope Thief
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
Babygirl Halina Reijn
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
GoldenHeart Dawn Richard
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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