Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2017
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2024
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- Top 25 Albums of 2019: American Songwriter

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The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Dean's List 2017 Robert Christgau

Trending Works

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

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