Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Village Voice: Top 100 Albums of 2016
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Stephen Kearse: Time
The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Complex
The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Boston Globe

The Best Albums Of 2024: Essence
The Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop

Trending Works

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
Love in Exile Shon Faye
Acid Rap Chance The Rapper
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
Mania Hamza
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
Read Until You Understand Farah Jasmine Griffin

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