Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Best Films of 2019: Jourdain Searles: Seventh Row: Seventh Row Critics Survey

Favorite Films by Women in 2019: Kimber Myers
Best Black Films of the 2010s: Jourdain Searles

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Tár Todd Field
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
All-Night Pharmacy Ruth Madievsky
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
XXX Danny Brown
The Galleons Rick Barot
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Passages Ira Sachs

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