Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Lists

The Best Movies of 2019: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune

Best Films of 2019: Erika Balsom: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
Top Ten Films of 2019: Cinema Scope

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Incendies Denis Villeneuve
Tully Jason Reitman
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
The Topeka School Ben Lerner
Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
Luck and Strange David Gilmour
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
White Roses, My God Alan Sparhawk
Bad Mexicans Kelly Lytle Hernández
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Vortex Veering Back to Venus Mosquitoes
A Colony in a Nation Chris Hayes
Too Far with Rachel Kaly and Robby Hoffman
On Hell Johanna Hedva

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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