Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Atlantic: The Best Books of 2025
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Vintage Contemporaries

by Dan Kois

Lists

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023: Washington Post
The Very Best Books of 2023: Constance Grady: Vox

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Movies of 2024 Guardian
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade Of Monsters and Men
Empire of AI Karen Hao
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
False Dawn George Selgin
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Ash is Purest White Jia Zhang-ke
Stage Four Touché Amoré
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
XXX Danny Brown
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
Vortex Gaspar Noé

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