Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

The 25 Best Podcasts of 2023: Laura Jane Standley: Atlantic

My 25 Favorite New Podcasts of 2023: Lauren Passell: Lifehacker

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best TV Shows & Mini-Series of the Decade The Playlist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Movies of 2011 Dana Stevens · Slate

Trending Works

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras
From Ground Zero
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Beginners Mike Mills
Civil War Alex Garland
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Getting Killed Geese
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman

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