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
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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48 Heads From The Merkurov Museum

by Anna Artaker

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Top Films of 2012: Christoph Huber and Olaf Möller: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top Ten Films of the 2010s Cinema Scope
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
XXX Danny Brown
Tranquilizer Oneohtrix Point Never
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Weapons Zach Cregger
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn

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