Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be

The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

by Mark Binelli

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10 Best Books of 2012: Publishers Weekly

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The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Last Summer Catherine Breillat
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Fragments for Venus Alice Diop
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Weapons Zach Cregger

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