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
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Top 40 Albums of 2019: Decibel

The Year in Music: Steve Erickson: GCN

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
House of Huawei Eva Dou
XXX Danny Brown
You Didn't See Nothin
My Adventures with Superman
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
In the Dark
Getting Killed Geese
Dìdi Sean Wang
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: The Podcast
Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan
Here Bas Devos

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