Year-End Lists

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy
1. The Best Movies of 2024: Owen Gleiberman: Variety

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The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best International TV Shows of 2024 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Tár Todd Field
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
XXX Danny Brown
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
Civil War Alex Garland
Music for Living Spaces Green-House
Sicario Denis Villeneuve
You Didn't See Nothin
In the Dark
Eddington Ari Aster
Dìdi Sean Wang
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles

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