Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2025: Roxana Hadadi: New York: Vulture

Best International TV Shows of 2025: Mike Hale: New York Times
The Best TV Shows of 2025: Economist

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

American Eden Victoria Johnson
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Lowdown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Common Side Effects
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
American Prison Shane Bauer
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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