Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Best of Friends

by Kamila Shamsie

Lists

Best Fiction of 2022: Laura Battle: Financial Times
The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022: BBC: BBC Culture

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
10 Best Films of 2022 Mark Kermode · Observer
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Leftovers Le Ren
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
hexed! aya
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
Collapsed in Sunbeams Arlo Parks

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