Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2017
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The 10 Best Shows of 2021

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Dean's List 2017 Robert Christgau
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic

Trending Works

Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
Bernie Richard Linklater
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
Because I Was a Painter Christophe Cognet
Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo
Enough Said Nicole Holofcener
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty
Mrs. Fletcher
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) Kenji Mizoguchi
Two Shots Fired Martín Rejtman
The Spectacular Now James Ponsoldt
In Place of Monuments Naima Ramos-Chapman

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