Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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James Quandt: Artforum: Best Films of 2022
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Love and Trouble

A Midlife Reckoning

by Claire Dederer

Lists

Top 20 Books of 2017: Stranger

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
Gangs of Wasseypur Anurag Kashyap
mbv My Bloody Valentine
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
Mania Hamza
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Acid Rap Chance The Rapper
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Nótt eftir nótt Kælan Mikla

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