Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Clémence Polès Farhang: Top Ten Films of 2020
PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2024
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Top 50 Albums of 2022: The Alternative

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Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Poetry of 2019 BuzzFeed
Fiction 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award
Top Ten Films of 2020 Clémence Polès Farhang
Albums of 2021 Gorilla vs. Bear
The Best Albums Of 2023 Complex
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 National Book Award
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Albums of the 2010s Esquire
75 Best Albums of 2018 Mojo
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

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The Exorcist
Frankie Ira Sachs
KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere Nate Smith
A Useful Ghost Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed Meghan Daum
Easy, episode "Package Thief" Joe Swanberg
She Taught Love Nate Edwards
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Att. Young Miko
Araf — Somewhere In Between Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Beginning Déa Kulumbegashvili
Could It Be Different? The Spook School
John Candy: I Like Me Colin Hanks
Virtue Hermione Hoby

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