Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Denis Côté

Lists

10 Best Movies of 2012: David Fear: Time Out New York

Top 15 Films of 2012: Cinema Scope
Top 5 Films of 2012: Carmen Gray: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Collapsed in Sunbeams Arlo Parks
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
hexed! aya
Fatigue L'Rain
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
-io Circuit Des Yeux
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev

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