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
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best Films of 2025
100 Favorite Movies of 2024
Best Movies of 2023
My Favorite Movies of 2022
The Best Movies of 2021 The Ringer
My Favorite Movies of 2020
Top 10 Movies of the 2010s The Ringer · The Big Picture

Trending Lists

10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Boom Town Sam Anderson
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
Succession
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams

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