Year-End Lists

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The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 Consequence
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2024 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2024 Paste
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Complex
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times

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Chameleon: The Michigan Plot
Mrs. Fletcher
Ambulance Michael Bay
To Name the Bigger Lie Sarah Viren
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Metro Boomin
The Day Is My Enemy The Prodigy
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Killer David Fincher
Pauline Kael Brian Kellow
As We Speak Béla Fleck / Zakir Hussain / Edgar Meyer
Sonita Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
The Summer House Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Beasts of No Nation Cary Joji Fukunaga

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