Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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by Wendy Eisenberg

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Top 20 Albums of 2024: Spectrum Culture
The Top 30 Albums of 2024: Jordan Cronk
The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Pitchfork
Albums of the Year 2024: Quietus

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Sly Thom Zimny
Oracle Cate Marvin
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Idlewild Idlewild
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Liars Sarah Manguso
The Sunshine Place
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Clean Slate

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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