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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Best Movies of 2021: Nick Schager: Esquire

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Antidote Karen Russell
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Rakshak Bloodywood
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire

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