Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
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by Scott Cooper

Lists

Best Movies of 2017: Film School Rejects
Best Movies of 2017: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll

Best Films of 2017: Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
Best Movies of 2017: Christopher Orr: Atlantic

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 40 Albums of 2025 Decibel
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Albums of 2011 Claire Suddath · Time

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Suspicious Minds
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Psychedelic Anxiety Frances Chang
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
A Seat at the Table Solange
Paper Girl Beth Macy
Be the Cowboy Mitski
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
U R HERE Honesty
Perfect Days Wim Wenders

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