Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes

The Janes
1. Best Films of 2022: Passerby
2. The 10 Best Documentaries of 2022: Noel Murray: Polygon
- Top 20 Films of 2022: Ty Burr

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
Getting Killed Geese
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
American Prison Shane Bauer

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