Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
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Lists

10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2024: Guardian

The Best Podcasts of 2025: Economist
The Best Podcasts of 2024: Economist
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2024: Marnie Shure: Atlantic

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Pitchfork
50 Best Albums of 2013 Complex
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Treble
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Norman Fucking Rockwell! Lana Del Rey
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Counterpart
Not Okay Quinn Shephard
The Missing Picture Rithy Panh
The Eagle Huntress Otto Bell
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
The Serpent
Queer Luca Guadagnino
Mambos Levis D'Outro Mundo various artists
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Jafar Panahi
The Universe Smiles upon You Khruangbin
Western Valeska Grisebach

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