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
New York Public Library: Best Books for Adults 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Our Culture

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire

Trending Works

Tár Todd Field
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Bent by Nature
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Soi Cheang
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Magellan Lav Diaz
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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