Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024: Polygon

Best TV Shows of 2024: Robert Lloyd: Los Angeles Times
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2024: Complex

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Dean's List 2017 Robert Christgau
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Embedded: Alternate Realities
KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere Nate Smith
This is Not a Film Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) Kenji Mizoguchi
The Onania Club Tom Six
Experimenter Michael Almereyda
Silent Night John Woo
Enough Said Nicole Holofcener
The Rehearsal Nathan Fielder
The Grandmaster Wong Kar-Wai
Bernie Richard Linklater
Because I Was a Painter Christophe Cognet
In Place of Monuments Naima Ramos-Chapman

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