Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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An Officer and a Spy

by Roman Polanski

Lists

The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Stephanie Zacharek: Time
Top Ten Films of 2025: Glenn Kenny: RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Sinners Ryan Coogler
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Boom Town Sam Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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