Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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50 Best Albums of 2024

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10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Rakshak Bloodywood
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Why Nothing Works Marc J. Dunkelman
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel

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