Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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1. The Best Albums of 2019: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions
2. The Best Albums of 2019: Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune: Sound Opinions

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Inside Scientology Janet Reitman
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
hexed! aya
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Getting Killed Geese
The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still Hot Mulligan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
XXX Danny Brown

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