Year-End Lists

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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by Robert Kenner

Lists

10 Best Films of 2016: Amy Taubin: Artforum

Top Ten Films of 2016: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

How to Not Be Afraid of Everything Jane Wong
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Dry Leaf Aleksandre Koberidze
Open City Teju Cole
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Weapons Zach Cregger
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
XXX Danny Brown
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt

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