Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2024
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Best Films of 2024 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2023 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2022 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Films of 2021 A.V. Club
The Best Films of 2020 A.V. Club
The Best Films of 2019 A.V. Club
Top 15 Films of 2018 A.V. Club

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

The Topeka School Ben Lerner
The Appalachian Sea Steve Scafidi
Get Rollin' Nickelback
On Hell Johanna Hedva
Vortex Veering Back to Venus Mosquitoes
Tully Jason Reitman
The House That Jack Built Lars von Trier
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
A Colony in a Nation Chris Hayes
Incendies Denis Villeneuve
Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
White Roses, My God Alan Sparhawk
Moodie Yuno
Bad Mexicans Kelly Lytle Hernández

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