Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025 ScreenCrush
The Best New TV Shows of 2024 ScreenCrush
Top Ten Films of 2019 Filmmaker Magazine · Village Voice Film Poll
Best Films of 2017 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
50 Best Albums of 2011 Paste
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Films of 2022 David Sims · Atlantic
The 18 Best Novels of 2024 Sunday Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
50 Best Albums of 2012 Mojo

Trending Works

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Questlove
XXX Danny Brown
TransAtlantic Colum McCann
Both/And Denne Michele Norris (editor)
Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda
No Exit Damien Power
Mrs. Fletcher
Brat Charli XCX
Andor
Mines Menomena
20 Days in Mariupol Mstyslav Chernov
Alpha Julia Ducournau
You Private Person Richard Chiem
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau

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