Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Best Movies Of 2022 Deadline
Best Movies Of 2021 Deadline
Top 10 Films of 2020 Deadline
The Best Films of 2019 Hollywood Reporter
Best Films of 2018 Hollywood Reporter
20 Best Films of 2017 Hollywood Reporter
19 Best Films of 2016 Hollywood Reporter

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Paperboy Lee Daniels
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
April Déa Kulumbegashvili
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Weapons Zach Cregger
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Resurrection Bi Gan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Kahlil Joseph
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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