Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023
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Song Exploder

Song Exploder

Appears on two lists

The 50 Best Podcasts of 2018: Atlantic

The Best Podcasts of 2024: Vogue

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Down Cemetery Road
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley David Waldstreicher
Red Capriccio Blake Williams
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne Jean-Marie Straub
Rakshak Bloodywood
Nightcrawler Dan Gilroy
The Giverny Document (Single Channel) Ja’Tovia Gary
Titanic Rising Weyes Blood
La Pivellina Tizza Covi
Drumming Up Trouble Alvin Curran
Them
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Deepa Anappara

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