Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times: 20 Best Movies of 2012
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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50 Favorite Albums of 2015: Gorilla vs. Bear

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
Best Fiction of 2025 Maria Crawford · Financial Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024 Washington Post
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
20 Best Movies of 2012 Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino
Spotlight Tom McCarthy
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
Sex Education
Son of Saul László Nemes
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
Vertières I, II, III Louise Botkay
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
The Chronology of Water Kristen Stewart
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The English Hugo Blick
Demolished Thoughts Thurston Moore
All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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