Year-End Lists

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Top 10 Films of 2024: Ryan Swen
Top 50 Films of 2024: Film Stage
Best Films of 2024: In Review Online

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

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
hexed! aya
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Aux Pieds de la Nuit Nyx Nott
That Was Something Dan Callahan
The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan
Des fantômes Faune
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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