Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Lists

Top 10 Movies of 2012: Jake Coyle: AP
15 Best Films of 2012: Noel Murray: A.V. Club

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

Trending Works

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

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