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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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by Lalah Hathaway

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism

Best Albums of 2024: AllMusic

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2022 Paste
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Long Story Short
Small Axe: Mangrove Steve McQueen
Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
WTF with Marc Maron Marc Maron
Colored Television Danzy Senna
A Real Pain Jesse Eisenberg
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
The Big Bang Theory
Revenge Coralie Fargeat
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
XXX Danny Brown
Afterparties Anthony Veasna So

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