Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Fighting in the War Room: Top Tens 2025
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The 60 Best Albums of 2020: PopMatters

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Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
2011 Award The Booker Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top Tens 2025 Fighting in the War Room
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

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McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
Presence Steven Soderbergh
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Be the Cowboy Mitski
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Rough and Rowdy Ways Bob Dylan
Minding the Gap Bing Liu
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Moneyball Bennett Miller
Impersonator Majical Cloudz
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie

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