Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Consequence: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

11 Best Films of 2012: David Denby: New Yorker
Top Ten Movies of 2012: David Edelstein: New York
22 Favorite Movies of 2012: J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Complex
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 Consequence
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork
50 Best Albums of 2012 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post

Trending Works

New Shadows Jerry David DeCicca
Getting Killed Geese
Il Buco Michelangelo Frammartino
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Dele Weds Destiny Tomi Obaro
Zama Lucrecia Martel
The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter Kia Corthron
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Invisibility SIT
Tim: Let It Bleed Edition The Replacements
A Ghost of Caribou Alice Henderson
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... AFI

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