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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2023
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The Best Podcasts of 2022: Economist

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Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
10 Best Books of 2023 Publishers Weekly
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Dean's List 2017 Robert Christgau
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic

Trending Works

Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
Two Shots Fired Martín Rejtman
KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere Nate Smith
Bernie Richard Linklater
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
Silent Night John Woo
Because I Was a Painter Christophe Cognet
The Onania Club Tom Six
Enough Said Nicole Holofcener
Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo
In Place of Monuments Naima Ramos-Chapman
Three Summers Sandra Kogut
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) Kenji Mizoguchi
Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty

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