Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2024
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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House of Balloons & Thursday

by The Weeknd

Appears on two lists

50 Best Albums of 2011: Spin
Top Albums of 2011: Prefix

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Fragments for Venus Alice Diop
7 Walks with Mark Brown Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
We Were the Scenery Christopher Radcliff
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Weapons Zach Cregger
Last Summer Catherine Breillat
The Fifth Shot of La Jetée Dominique Cabrera
The Holdovers Alexander Payne

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