Year-End Lists

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75 Best Albums of 2019: Uncut

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The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Albums of 2022 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 20 Books of 2017 Time
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

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The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman
Fargo
Trip Amie Barrodale
Eno Gary Hustwit
The Long Walk Francis Lawrence
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
Le Kov Gwenno
Tearless Amnesia Scanner
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... Steven Pinker

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