Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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IndieWire: Top 50 Films of 2012
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Lists

The 20 Best Podcasts of 2021: Guardian

Top 10 Favourite Podcasts of 2022: Globe and Mail
The 30 Best Podcasts of 2022: Esquire
The 10 Best Podcasts of 2022: Mara Davis: Paste

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Dean's List 2017 Robert Christgau
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com

Trending Works

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

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