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
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Top 10 Podcasts of 2019: AP

The 30 Best Podcasts of 2022: Esquire
The 21 Best Podcasts of 2018: Esquire

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2019 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
GoldenHeart Dawn Richard
The Pitt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Dope Thief
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
Babygirl Halina Reijn
Decision to Leave Park Chan-wook
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Boom Town Sam Anderson
2020 Richard Dawson

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