Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Allie Rowbottom

Lists

39 Best Books of 2022: Vanity Fair

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant

Trending Works

Fingernails Christos Nikou
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Clean Slate
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Idlewild Idlewild
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Mountainhead Jesse Armstrong
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Sly Thom Zimny
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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