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
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Maureen Corrigan: NPR: 10 Favorite Books of 2025
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by Katya Apekina

Lists

Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed
Best Books of 2018: Entropy

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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