Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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Lists

The Best Movies of 2025
The Best Movies of 2024 Washington Post
Top 20 Films of 2022
The Best Movies of 2021
Best Movies of 2020 Boston Globe
The 50 Best Movies of the Decade Boston Globe
28 Best Movies of 2014 Boston Globe
Top 26 Movies of 2012 Boston Globe
Top Movies of 2011 Boston Globe

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Thresholder Ian William Craig
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Splitsville Michael Angelo Covino
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Vida
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Idlewild Idlewild

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