Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Burning Questions

Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

by Margaret Atwood

Lists

The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022: BBC: BBC Culture

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Ravedeath, 1972 Tim Hecker
You're Weird Now Guerilla Toss
Revengeseekerz Jane Remover
New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh Erykah Badu
XXX Danny Brown
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
hooke’s law KeiyaA
Flashlight Susan Choi
Getting Killed Geese
The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still Hot Mulligan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra

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