Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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by Al Riggs

Lists

2022 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine

Trending Works

A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Bone Valley
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Interview with the Vampire
A Very English Scandal
Boom Town Sam Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Embedded: Alternate Realities
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists

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