Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Demdike Stare

Lists

2018's Best Albums: Resident Advisor
Music I Enjoyed in 2018: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Movies of 2024 Guardian
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
False Dawn George Selgin
Ash is Purest White Jia Zhang-ke
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Stage Four Touché Amoré
All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade Of Monsters and Men
Empire of AI Karen Hao
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Vortex Gaspar Noé
XXX Danny Brown
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade

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