Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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The 10 Best TV Shows of 2023: Lorraine Ali: Los Angeles Times

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The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Dean's List 2017 Robert Christgau
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
Bernie Richard Linklater
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) Kenji Mizoguchi
Because I Was a Painter Christophe Cognet
KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere Nate Smith
Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
In Place of Monuments Naima Ramos-Chapman
Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty
Silent Night John Woo
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
Enough Said Nicole Holofcener
Two Shots Fired Martín Rejtman

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