Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2025
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by Ron Fricke

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12 Top 20 Films of 2012: Bilge Ebiri

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2026 Award The Booker Prize
The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s Paste
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Poetry 2026 National Book Award
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

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No Time for Dreaming Charles Bradley
Seeing Ghosts Kat Chow
All the Moons Igor Legarreta
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
High & Low Caitlyn Smith
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 12th Edition
Get Out Jordan Peele
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman
The Autodidacts Thomas Kendall
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Noah Baumbach
The Call Yannick Murphy
Undun The Roots
Overcompensating
Who Cares? Alexe Poukine

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