Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The 25 Best TV Shows of 2019: Slant

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

Trending Works

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

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