Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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1. The 30 Best Albums Of 2021: Spin
2. The Best Albums of 2021: Complex
- Best Albums of 2021: Jon Caramanica: New York Times

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
False Lankum Lankum
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Alpha Julia Ducournau
House of Huawei Eva Dou

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