Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Dana Stevens: Slate: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Complex: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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6 Favorite Poetry Collections of 2023: Dasia Moore: Boston Globe

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The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019 Wired UK
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024 A.S. Hamrah · n+1
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Dana Stevens · Slate
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex

Trending Works

Trois, Deux, Un Juniore
Donda Kanye West
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Anora Sean Baker
Inheriting
Am I the Drama? Cardi B
Section.80 Kendrick Lamar
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Art of Loving Olivia Dean
Lese Majesty Shabazz Palaces
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
MASA YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
XXX Danny Brown

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