Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2019: No Depression

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The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Flashlight Susan Choi
The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still Hot Mulligan
hexed! aya
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Getting Killed Geese
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
XXX Danny Brown
Inside Scientology Janet Reitman
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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