Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Top 10 Albums of 2011: Austin Powell: Austin Chronicle

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Diamond Eyes Deftones
Clean Slate
Francesca David Murray Quartet
The Sunshine Place
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Idlewild Idlewild
Fingernails Christos Nikou
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Sly Thom Zimny

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