Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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by June McDoom

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Top 50 Albums of 2023: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop

Trending Lists

80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Godwin Joseph O'Neill
Eddington Ari Aster
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
XXX Danny Brown
The Lowdown
Connie Connie Chung
Blind Spot Teju Cole
Keeper of the Shepherd Hannah Frances
The Haunted Man Bat for Lashes
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Joel & Ethan Coen
The Passenger Cormac McCarthy
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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

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