Year-End Lists

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Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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The 15 Best New TV Shows of 2024: IndieWire
The Best TV Shows of 2024: Miles Surrey: The Ringer

The Best TV Shows of 2024: Angie Han: Hollywood Reporter
The 22 Best TV Shows of 2024: Vanity Fair
The Best TV Shows of 2024: Vogue

Trending Lists

2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Films of 2025 Film Stage
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

On Falling Laura Carreira
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Southernmost Leo Boix
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
XXX Danny Brown
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Strange Hearts Secret Cities

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