Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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by Casimir Nozkowski

Lists

Top 20 Movies of 2021: Odie Henderson: Slate: Movie Club

Top Ten Films of 2021: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com
Top 50 Films of 2021: Robert Daniels

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Albums of 2021 Dork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s A.V. Club
50 Best Albums of 2018 Billboard
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Visions of Bodies Being Burned clipping.
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Burning Lee Chang-dong
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Happyend Neo Sora
Return to Seoul Davy Chou
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Five Seconds Flat Lizzy McAlpine
Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer Vincent Le Port
Melancholia Lars von Trier
Flesh David Szalay
Ripley Steven Zaillian
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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