Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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THEESatisfaction

Awe Naturale

Trending Lists

Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall

Trending Works

Diamond Eyes Deftones
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Clean Slate
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sly Thom Zimny
Idlewild Idlewild
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
The Sunshine Place
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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