Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The Best TV Shows of 2024: Angie Han: Hollywood Reporter
The Best TV Shows of 2024: Jen Chaney: New York: Vulture
Best TV Shows of 2024: BuzzFeed

The 22 Best TV Shows of 2024: Vanity Fair
Best TV Shows of 2023: Judy Berman: Time
The Best TV Shows of 2023: Vogue

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
We the People Jill Lepore
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Sinners Ryan Coogler
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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