Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023
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Lists

42 Best Albums of 2013: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Economist
25 Best Films of 2013 David Ehrlich
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
Top 50 Albums of 2023 The Wire
Best Movies of 2023 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

We Need to Talk About Kevin Lynne Ramsay
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians Radu Jude
An Elephant Sitting Still Hu Bo
A Murder at the End of the World
The Midnight Sky George Clooney
XXX Danny Brown
Get Millie Black
YOLO: Rainbow Trinity
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Memories Lang Leav
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Demon Marcin Wrona
Middle Spoon Alejandro Varela

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