Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Jenny Xie

Lists

Best Books of 2022: Passerby

Favorite Poetry Collections of 2022: Electric Lit
Poetry 2022: National Book Award
Best Poetry of 2022: Library Journal

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Favorite Books of 2019 Smithsonian
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Boom Town Sam Anderson
American Prison Shane Bauer
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
American Eden Victoria Johnson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Lowdown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Common Side Effects
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade

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