Year-End Lists

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: Top 11 Films of 2012
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Cobalt Red

How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

by Siddharth Kara

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100 Notable Books of 2023: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Last Summer Catherine Breillat
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Fragments for Venus Alice Diop
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Weapons Zach Cregger
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie

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