Year-End Lists

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Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2017
David Sims: Atlantic: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2025
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The 50 Best Podcasts of 2021: Atlantic
The Best Podcasts of 2021: New York: Vulture Podcast Survey

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021: Reggie Ugwu: New York Times

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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