Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
Sight & Sound: The Best Films of 2020
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The Aristocracy of Talent

How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge

Lists

Best Books of 2021: New Statesman

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The 35 Best Books of 2025 Adam Morgan · Esquire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2022 Pitchfork
50 Best Albums of 2014 Rolling Stone
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 Ty Burr

Trending Works

The Unknown Man of Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy
Hinterlands Scott Barley
Half Living Things Alpha Wolf
May December Todd Haynes
The Onania Club Tom Six
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers
While We’re Young Noah Baumbach
It's a Sin
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Thelma Joachim Trier
XXX Danny Brown
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Blade Runner 2049 Denis Villeneuve

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