Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The Best Movies of 2021 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2019 Wall Street Journal
Best Film of 2018 Wall Street Journal
10 Best Films of 2017 Wall Street Journal

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top Ten Films of 2025 Matt Patches · Fighting in the War Room
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Best Albums of 2018 Billboard
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Albums of 2021 Dork
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s A.V. Club

Trending Works

Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer Vincent Le Port
Flesh David Szalay
Five Seconds Flat Lizzy McAlpine
Ripley Steven Zaillian
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Visions of Bodies Being Burned clipping.
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Happyend Neo Sora
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Melancholia Lars von Trier
Return to Seoul Davy Chou

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