Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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- The Best Hip-Hop Projects of 2023: XXL
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1. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: The Fader
- The Best Albums Of 2022: Uproxx
USEE4YOURSELF
1. The Best Albums of 2021: Complex
- The Best Albums Of 2021: Uproxx
Is He Real?
1. The Best Albums Of 2019: Uproxx
- 50 of the Best Hop-Hop Projects of 2019: XXL
IWASVERYBAD
1. Best Albums of 2017: Pigeons & Planes

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Her Spike Jonze
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
False Lankum Lankum
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Looper Rian Johnson
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor

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