Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2017
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Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade

Lists

The 35 Best Podcasts of 2022: Atlantic

The 30 Best Podcasts of 2022: Esquire
The Best Podcasts of 2022: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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