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
Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times: 20 Best Movies of 2012
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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by Rachel Cusk

Lists

10 Best Books of 2018: Christian Lorentzen: New York: Vulture
Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed

100 Recommended Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle
Best Fiction of 2018: Goldsmiths Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018: New York Times: New York Times
Best Books of 2018: Katy Waldman: New Yorker
Best Books of 2018: Bustle

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top Albums of 2025 Emilie Hanskamp
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Movies of 2018 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
20 Best Movies of 2012 Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Succession
劇變 (Jubian) Ripped to Shreds
Electric Arches Eve L. Ewing
The Broken King Michael Thomas
Parasite Bong Joon-ho
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Hang Up
I Killed My Mother Xavier Dolan
Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal Hulubalang
Standards Into It. Over It.
Getting Killed Geese
Signal Fires Dani Shapiro
Julia
Train Dreams Clint Bentley

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