Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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by Sam Mendes

Lists

The 10 Best Movies of 2022: Richard Lawson: Vanity Fair

The 10 Best Movies of 2022: Leah Greenblatt: Entertainment Weekly

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Albums of 2022 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Top 20 Books of 2017 Time
100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman
Choke Enough Oklou
Empty Netters
Eno Gary Hustwit
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Fargo
Trip Amie Barrodale
We All Want the Same Things Craig Finn
Tearless Amnesia Scanner
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Le Kov Gwenno
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry

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