Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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The Best Albums of 2016: Carl Wilson: Slate

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
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
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
The Post Steven Spielberg
We Lived on the Horizon Erika Swyler
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Heavy Metal Cameron Winter
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
A Different Man Aaron Schimberg

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