Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Girl with the Needle

by Magnus von Horn

Lists

The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Guardian
51 Favourite Films of 2024: Guy Lodge
The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Paste

Best Films of 2024: Lovia Gyarkye: Hollywood Reporter
Favorite Films from 2024: Saige Walton

Trending Lists

Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Rakshak Bloodywood
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay

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