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
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020: Eliana Dockterman: Time

Best Podcasts of 2020: Teen Vogue
The Best Podcasts of 2020: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture
Best Podcasts of 2020: Rolling Stone

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times

Trending Works

The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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