Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Top 25 Albums of 2020: Magnet

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The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Antidote Karen Russell
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Rakshak Bloodywood
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill

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