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
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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1. Dean's List 2019: Robert Christgau
Ba Power
1. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Quietus
2. 75 Best Albums of 2015: Uncut
Jama Ko

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Southernmost Leo Boix
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Boom Town Sam Anderson
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
XXX Danny Brown
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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