Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Best TV Shows of 2024: Angie Han: Hollywood Reporter
The Best TV Shows of 2024: Jen Chaney: New York: Vulture
Best TV Shows of 2024: BuzzFeed

Top 10 TV Shows of 2024: Jenni Cullen
The 22 Best TV Shows of 2024: Vanity Fair
Best TV Shows of 2023: Judy Berman: Time
The Best TV Shows of 2023: Vogue

Trending Lists

Favorite Movies of 2024 Barack Obama
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
10 Best Books of 2024 Publishers Weekly
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
Best Movies of 2025 Alissa Wilkinson · New York Times
2020 Award The Booker Prize
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

A Murder at the End of the World
XXX Danny Brown
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
An Elephant Sitting Still Hu Bo
The Sower of Stars Lois Patiño
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Us Fools Nora Lange
Middle Spoon Alejandro Varela
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians Radu Jude
Swagger
High Maintenance
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
My Journey Through French Cinema Bertrand Tavernier

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