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
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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1. Dean's List 2018: Robert Christgau
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1. 40 Favorite Albums of 2011: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best International TV Shows of 2024 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Stereogum
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Nosferatu Robert Eggers
Civil War Alex Garland
Crows In The Basilica Chuck Johnson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Elle Paul Verhoeven
Tár Todd Field
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies The Inward Circles
Sicario Denis Villeneuve
Sticker NCT 127
The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra
Eddington Ari Aster

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