Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Sleep of Reason

by BATS

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100 Favourite Albums of 2012: Drowned in Sound

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Albums of the Year 2025 Quietus
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths
Yr Dead Sam Sax
Devotional The Lord † Petra Haden
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Abandon Pharmakon
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
The French Press Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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