Year-End Lists

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Christian Science Monitor: The Top 25 Books for 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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by Lee Cronin

Lists

The 30 Best Films of 2023: Little White Lies
Best Movies of 2023: Sean Fennessey

Favorite Movies of 2023: Sarah Welch-Larson
Top 10 Films of 2023: Jeffrey M. Anderson: SF Examiner
The Best Films Of 2023: HuffPost

Trending Lists

10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Flashlight Susan Choi
Succession
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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