Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2024
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Lucifer

Appears on two lists

The Best TV of 2019: LaToya Ferguson: A.V. Club

My Top 11 TV Shows of 2021: Maureen Ryan

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2024 Town & Country
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2024 The Wire
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top Ten Films of 2018 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Burning Lee Chang-dong
Cowboy Carter Beyoncé
$ad Boyz 4 Life II Junior H
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman
Blackstar David Bowie
DX Friendzone
Sudan Archives Sudan Archives
Jubilee Japanese Breakfast
I Want to Live My Life Stars Hollow
Cry Sugar Hudson Mohawke
Trifle Lone Taxidermist
A Better Ghost Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
Zola Janicza Bravo
Dream On Ital

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