Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020: Washington Post

Trending Lists

25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Records of the Year 2011 Rise

Trending Works

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

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