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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Treble
Top 50 Albums of 2024: Brooklyn Vegan
The Best Albums of 2024: Flood
The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Paste
Albums of the Year 2024: Quietus

Favorite Albums of 2024: Tone Glow

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
40 Albums I Loved in 2024 Adrian Spinelli
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
The Best Movies of 2024 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
2015 Best Books of the Year Shelf Awareness
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Why Nothing Works Marc J. Dunkelman
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
Information Desk Robyn Schiff
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Song to Song Terrence Malick
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Anna Hints
Playground Laura Wandel
Yeezus Kanye West
Titane Julia Ducournau
Magdalene FKA twigs

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