Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
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1. Top 40 Albums of 2020: Decibel
2. Top 50 Albums of 2020: Treble

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
mbv My Bloody Valentine
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Gangs of Wasseypur Anurag Kashyap
Nótt eftir nótt Kælan Mikla
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
Acid Rap Chance The Rapper
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Mania Hamza
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont

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