Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2024
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Maalem Mahmoud Gania

Colours of the Night
1. Top 50 Albums of 2017: The Wire
- Favorite Albums of 2017: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Fragments for Venus Alice Diop
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Last Summer Catherine Breillat
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Weapons Zach Cregger
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Holdovers Alexander Payne

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