Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Top 100 Albums of 2014: Quietus

Best Albums of 2014: Flood

Trending Lists

25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll

Trending Works

Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Rakshak Bloodywood
This Is the Sonics The Sonics

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