Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The 10 Best Podcasts Of 2024: HuffPost
The 10 Best New Podcasts of 2024: Lauren Passell: Lifehacker
The 26 Best Podcasts of 2024: Esquire

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
A Seat at the Table Solange
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
U R HERE Honesty
Paper Girl Beth Macy
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Suspicious Minds
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Be the Cowboy Mitski

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