Year-End Lists

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023
IndieWire: Top 50 Films of 2012
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Dean's List 2017 Robert Christgau
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
Enough Said Nicole Holofcener
In Place of Monuments Naima Ramos-Chapman
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
About Elly Asghar Farhadi
Because I Was a Painter Christophe Cognet
Bernie Richard Linklater
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) Kenji Mizoguchi
Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo
Two Shots Fired Martín Rejtman
Silent Night John Woo

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