Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Village Voice: Top 100 Albums of 2016
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Smokin the Dummy
- 2022 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard
Just Like Moby Dick
1. The Best Albums of 2020: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post

Trending Works

Acid Rap Chance The Rapper
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Read Until You Understand Farah Jasmine Griffin
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
Hail and Farewell Abby E. Murray
Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
Mania Hamza
Alpha Julia Ducournau
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
Love in Exile Shon Faye
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy

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