Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
MJ Franklin: Favorite Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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by Catherine Newman

Lists

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

Passages Ira Sachs
Renaissance Beyoncé
Sinners Ryan Coogler
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Sinister Grift Panda Bear
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
-io Circuit Des Yeux
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Getting Killed Geese

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