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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Insatiable
1. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
Systemic
1. Albums of the Year 2023: Loud And Quiet
2. 108 Favorite Albums Of 2023: Hanif Abdurraqib
Gas Lit

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

A Small Light
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth
Through The Window Prurient
Pillion Harry Lighton
The Glowing Man Swans
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Syncope Asiya Wadud
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
XXX Danny Brown
Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley

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