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
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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1. The Best Films of 2012: Sam Adams: A.V. Club
- Top 36 Movies of 2012: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
- Top Ten Movies of 2012: David Edelstein: New York

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sly Thom Zimny
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Clean Slate
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Idlewild Idlewild
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Liars Sarah Manguso
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs

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