Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

The 35 Best Podcasts of 2022: Atlantic

The Best Podcasts of 2022: Economist
Best Podcasts of 2022: Reggie Ugwu: New York Times
The Best Podcasts of 2022: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo
About Elly Asghar Farhadi
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) Kenji Mizoguchi
In Place of Monuments Naima Ramos-Chapman
Because I Was a Painter Christophe Cognet
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere Nate Smith
Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty
Silent Night John Woo
Bernie Richard Linklater
Two Shots Fired Martín Rejtman

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