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
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best Podcasts of 2022: Sarah Larson: New Yorker
The Best Podcasts of 2022: New York: Vulture Podcast Survey

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2022: Mara Davis: Paste
The 13 Best New Podcasts of 2022: Lauren Passell: Lifehacker
The Best Podcasts of 2022: Economist
The Best Podcasts of 2022: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
10 Best Podcasts of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2023 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 30 Best Films of 2023 Little White Lies

Trending Works

God Said No Omar Apollo
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Family Portrait Ross from Friends
Silver Eye Goldfrapp
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
Live In Paris Lolina
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Long Story Short
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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