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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Enjoy Youth
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
Fun City
1. The 100 Best Albums of 2020: Albumism
Life Is Easy
1. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Slant
Make Me Believe in Hope

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
2011 Award The Booker Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
25 Best Albums of the 2010s Revolver
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop

Trending Works

Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Impersonator Majical Cloudz
Moneyball Bennett Miller
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
The Tiger’s Wife Téa Obreht
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
Presence Steven Soderbergh
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Be the Cowboy Mitski

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