Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple

The Best Books Of 2020: Bustle
Favorite Books of 2020: Barack Obama

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Spotlight: Snitch City
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Weapons Zach Cregger
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Adam Curtis
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
World’s Strongest Man Gaz Coombes
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

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