Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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10 Best Films of 2017: J Hoberman: Artforum

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The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Within and Without Washed Out
Dissolution of The Sovereign: A Time Slide Into The Future (Or: A Non-Abled Offender’s Exercise in Jurisprudence) Elysia Crampton
Sub-Lingual Tablet The Fall
The Hurting Kind Ada Limón
The Antidote Karen Russell
CODA Sian Heder
The Ugly Stepsister Emilie Blichfeldt
Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection Dril
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
I Saw the TV Glow Jane Schoenbrun
All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh
D White Denim
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof

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