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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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40 Favorite Albums of 2013: Gorilla vs. Bear

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Albums of the Year 2025 Quietus
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

The French Press Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Abandon Pharmakon
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Devotional The Lord † Petra Haden
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
Yr Dead Sam Sax

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