Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Top 5 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

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100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The 35 Best Books of 2025 Adam Morgan · Esquire
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2020 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2020 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Records of 2024 Resident Advisor
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll

Trending Works

The Unknown Man of Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy
American Scary Jeremy Dauber
Live Forever Bartees Strange
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
The Grey Album Kevin Young
Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
Essex Honey Blood Orange
An Oral History of Atlantis Ed Park
Inti Watana - El Retorno del Sol Luzmila Carpio
Melancholia Lars von Trier
Tomboy Céline Sciamma
The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings The Besnard Lakes

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