Year-End Lists

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

2022 in Music
Music I Enjoyed in 2018
Favorite Albums of 2017
100 Favorite Albums of 2016
89 Favorite Albums of 2015
50 Most Impressive Albums of 2014 New Yorker
42 Best Albums of 2013 New Yorker
40 Best Albums of 2012 New Yorker
Favorite Albums of 2011

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

Revengeseekerz Jane Remover
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Operation Avalanche Matt Johnson
Three Girls from Bronzeville Dawn Turner
Surface Noise Judiciary
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
Dragon Peter Chan
A Quiet Farwell, Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Eighteen Slauson Malone
Thirteen Lives Ron Howard
Bell Bottom Country Lainey Wilson
Welcome 2 Club XIII Drive-By Truckers
Gemini Rights Steve Lacy
Patterns in Mythology Falls of Rauros
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse

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