Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2025
Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2023
IndieWire: Top 50 Films of 2012
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Lists

The Best Podcasts of 2022: Economist

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

Trending Works

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

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