Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Best Films of 2025: Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2025: Wall Street Journal: Kyle Smith
Top 10 Films of 2025: Cahiers du Cinéma
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Lists

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 Time
The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2024 Time
The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023 Time
The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 Time
The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2022 Time
The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 Time
The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021 Time
The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Time

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2025 Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Bleeds Wednesday
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Virtuoso Valee and Harry Fraud
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
Getting Killed Geese
John Candy: I Like Me Colin Hanks
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
YU Rosie Lowe

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