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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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1. Best Films of 2024: J Hoberman: Artforum
Aghdra
1. Best Films of 2022: Amy Taubin: Artforum
Love is the Message, the Message is Death
1. The Best Films of the Decade: Hyperallergic
The White Album
1. 10 Best Films of 2019: James Quandt: Artforum
2. 10 Best Films of 2019: Amy Taubin: Artforum
Dreams are Colder than Death
1. 10 Best Films of 2014: Amy Taubin: Artforum

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Albums of 2011 Sonic
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
25 Best Albums of the 2010s Revolver
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
26 Best Films of 2011 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Impersonator Majical Cloudz
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Moneyball Bennett Miller
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
Rough and Rowdy Ways Bob Dylan
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Presence Steven Soderbergh
Be the Cowboy Mitski

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