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
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
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Lists

50 Best Albums of 2018: Albumism

Best Albums of 2018: Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune: Sound Opinions

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2024 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

The Furrows Namwali Serpell
LOL: Last One Laughing UK
The Pachinko Parlour Elisa Shua Dusapin
The CIA Book Club Charlie English
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Weapons Zach Cregger
Monkey Man Dev Patel
The Holdovers Alexander Payne
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
False Dawn George Selgin
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D. Saba & No I.D.
Resurrection Bi Gan

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