Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

75 Best Albums of 2022: Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2022: The Wire

2022 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard
2022 in Music: Sasha Frere-Jones
Our Favorite Albums, 2022: Tone Glow

Trending Lists

The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Paddington 2 Paul King
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Moonage Daydream Brett Morgen
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
American Prison Shane Bauer
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
The Power of the Dog Jane Campion
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
Fancy That PinkPantheress
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
American Eden Victoria Johnson

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