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
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Fiction 2022: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2022: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 20 Movies of 2020 K. Austin Collins · Rolling Stone
50 Best Albums of 2015 Complex
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 100 Albums of 2017 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Kiff
Dying for Sex
Maffia
XXX Danny Brown
War for the Planet of the Apes Matt Reeves
The Fighter David O. Russell
The Ugly Stepsister Emilie Blichfeldt
Tonight in Jungleland Peter Ames Carlin
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Angel Falls Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith
Weapons Zach Cregger
The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson
Contagion Steven Soderbergh

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