Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Michael Sicinski: Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025
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Homage
- 2022 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall

Trending Works

Bone Valley
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
A Very English Scandal
Interview with the Vampire
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney

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