Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The 10 Best Books of 2024 Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2022 Slate
The Best Books of 2020 Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2019 Slate

Trending Lists

Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Ten Best Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Best Films of 2021 Mark Kermode · Observer

Trending Works

Summertime ’06 Vince Staples
Laurence Anyways Xavier Dolan
L. Cohen James Benning
The Northman Robert Eggers
Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Marilyn Agrelo
Whores’ Glory Michael Glawogger
Returning to Reims (Fragments) Jean-Gabriel Périot
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki Juho Kuosmanen
All Our Knives Are Always Sharp Tony Njoku
Babi Yar. Context Sergei Loznitsa
Honeydew Devereux Milburn
GNX Kendrick Lamar
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau

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