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
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Rachel Lambert

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Top Ten Films of 2024: Marya E. Gates: RogerEbert.com

The Ten Best Films of 2024: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid

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The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Movies of 2015 Paste
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Dan's Boogie Destroyer
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham
Hunting Season Home Is Where
Death Farm Carl Hauck
Le Kov Gwenno
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors: A Past, Present and Personal Story Rachel Hewitt
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee

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