Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Hanif Abdurraqib: 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025
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The Best Albums of 2024: Atwood Magazine

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Caught Stealing Darren Aronofsky
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
False Lankum Lankum
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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