Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2024
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Cold Specks

Light for the Midnight
- Best Albums of 2025: AllMusic
Neuroplasticity
- 63 Top 140 Albums of 2014: Under the Radar
I Predict a Graceful Expulsion
- 93 Top 100 Albums of 2012: Les Inrocks

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll

Trending Works

Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
Valhalla Dancehall British Sea Power
Earth Mama Savanah Leaf
Loop Brenda Lozano
The Place Beyond The Pines Derek Cianfrance
Landline Gillian Robespierre
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library Frederick Wiseman
Victory Park Beom-soo
Death is Nothing to Us Fiddlehead
I Used To Be Darker Matthew Porterfield
Afire Christian Petzold
Articles of Interest: American Ivy
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins

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