Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Film Comment: 20 Best Films of 2014
A.V. Club: The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
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Top 10 Films of 2020

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Top 50 Albums of 2024 The Wire
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Brendan Menapace · Esquire
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020 Hip Hop Golden Age
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 A.V. Club
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 40 Albums of 2025 Decibel
Top Ten Films of 2025 Mike D’Angelo
The 50 Best Films of 2024 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Year of Hibernation Youth Lagoon
I Want to Live My Life Stars Hollow
The Thread That Keeps Us Calexico
Animated Violence Mild Blanck Mass
A Better Ghost Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
$ad Boyz 4 Life II Junior H
Cocoa Sugar Young Fathers
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
Blackstar David Bowie
Infantilised Keith J. Hayward
Music For People In Trouble Susanne Sundfør
Testing A$AP Rocky
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Paddington 2 Paul King

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