Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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50 Best Films of 2017: Slant

Favorite Feature Films of 2017: Ryland Walker Knight

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Antidote Karen Russell
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
XXX Danny Brown
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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