Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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John Waters: Artforum: 10 Best Films of 2014
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Best Novels of 2022: Paste

Trending Lists

100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
10 Best Films of 2014 John Waters · Artforum
The Best TV Shows of 2021 Emily St. James · Vox
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2025 Under the Radar
Top 25 Movies of 2012 Wesley Morris · Boston Globe
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Third Act Tadashi Nakamura
Miroirs No. 3 Christian Petzold
Cool Town Grace Elizabeth Hale
The Woman Next Door Yewande Omotoso
Eddington Ari Aster
Sorry to Bother You The Coup
Memoria Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Ernest & Celestine Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier
The Broken King Michael Thomas
Electric Pet Shop Boys
Bright I Burn Molly Aitken
Is This Thing On? Bradley Cooper

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