Year-End Lists

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Top 10 Films of 2024: Ryan Swen
Top 50 Films of 2024: Film Stage
Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll

Best Films of 2025: Benoit Rouilly
Best Movies of 2024: Manohla Dargis: New York Times

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Good Living Is Coming For You Sweeping Promises
Second Mansions Le Concorde
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Face Down in the Garden Tennis
Lurker Alex Russell
Slow West John Maclean
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Getting Killed Geese

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