Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Attrition
1. Top 50 Albums of 2025: The Wire
2. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
MELT
1. Albums of the Year 2021: Quietus

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Rakshak Bloodywood
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
The Antidote Karen Russell
Outside Noise Ted Fendt

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