Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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10 Favorite Albums of 2011: Stephen Thompson: NPR: NPR Music

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

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Javelin Sufjan Stevens
Avengers: Endgame Anthony and Joe Russo
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Crossroads Jonathan Franzen
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Loneliest Planet Julia Loktev
LP Big Stick
The Finest Hotel in Kabul Lyse Doucet
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
The Galleons Rick Barot
The Tennis Podcast

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