Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Best 50 Releases of 2024: The Alternative

50 Best Albums of 2024: Alternative Press

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

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

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