Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Lists

The 13 Best Movies of 2019: Vogue
Best Movies of 2019: Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
Best Movies of 2019: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
Favorite Films by Women in 2019: Kimber Myers

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s A.V. Club
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2018 Billboard
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Albums of 2021 Dork
Top Ten Films of 2025 Matt Patches · Fighting in the War Room
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Burning Lee Chang-dong
Five Seconds Flat Lizzy McAlpine
Melancholia Lars von Trier
Return to Seoul Davy Chou
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer Vincent Le Port
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Ripley Steven Zaillian
Flesh David Szalay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Visions of Bodies Being Burned clipping.

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