Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Top 50 Albums of 2025: The Wire
The 15 Best Films of 2025: USA Today: Cory Woodroof
Top 50 Albums of 2025: The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano
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Wild Up

Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine
1. 50 Best Albums of 2021: NPR: NPR Music
- Top 10 Albums of 2021: Carl Wilson: Slate
- Our Favorite Albums, 2021: Tone Glow

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Truly, Madly Stephen Galloway
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Babygirl Halina Reijn
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach

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