Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
James Quandt: Artforum: Best Films of 2022
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Best Books of 2025: Book Riot
The Best Queer Books of 2025: Autostraddle

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
Read Until You Understand Farah Jasmine Griffin
Alpha Julia Ducournau
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Acid Rap Chance The Rapper
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Mania Hamza
The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
Love in Exile Shon Faye
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon

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