Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Best TV Shows of 2025: Kelly Lawler: USA Today
The Best TV Of 2025 With Lesbian, Queer Women and Trans Characters: Autostraddle
Best TV Shows of 2025: Nora Dominick: BuzzFeed

The 10 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of 2025: Them

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
10 Best Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Favorite Books of 2019 Smithsonian
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Lowdown
American Eden Victoria Johnson
Common Side Effects
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
American Prison Shane Bauer

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