Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2024
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Farewell, My Queen

by Benoît Jacquot

Appears on three lists

50 Best Films of 2012: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll

Top 5 Films of 2012: Geoffrey Macnab: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
Top 5 Films of 2012: Geoffrey O’Brien: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The 10 Best Films of 2022 David Sims · Atlantic
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Best Albums of 2012 Mojo
50 Best Albums of 2011 Paste
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

TransAtlantic Colum McCann
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Questlove
Mrs. Fletcher
No Exit Damien Power
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
20 Days in Mariupol Mstyslav Chernov
XXX Danny Brown
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
Both/And Denne Michele Norris (editor)
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Mines Menomena
Andor
Brat Charli XCX
Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda

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