Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Slant

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Top Doll Karen McCarthy Woolf
Maps to the Stars David Cronenberg
James Percival Everett
When We Were Birds Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Universal Language Matthew Rankin
The Souvenir Joanna Hogg
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
Invisible Child Andrea Elliott
This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud
Trainwreck Judd Apatow
Nomadland Chloé Zhao
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