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
IndieWire: Best Films of 2011
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Lists

Top 14 Albums of 2014: Carl Wilson: Slate

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Dean's List 2017 Robert Christgau
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll

Trending Works

Because I Was a Painter Christophe Cognet
Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
Enough Said Nicole Holofcener
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
Bernie Richard Linklater
Mrs. Fletcher
The Spectacular Now James Ponsoldt
Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
In Place of Monuments Naima Ramos-Chapman
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) Kenji Mizoguchi
Two Shots Fired Martín Rejtman

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