Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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The 10 Best Podcasts We Listened To In 2023: HuffPost

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win

Trending Works

Fingernails Christos Nikou
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Clean Slate
The Sunshine Place
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Diamond Eyes Deftones
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Idlewild Idlewild
Oracle Cate Marvin
Liars Sarah Manguso
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs

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