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
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The Wild Boys

by Bertrand Mandico

Lists

Top Ten Films of 2018: Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2018: Philip Concannon
Top 10 Films of 2018: Les Inrocks
30 Favorite Films of 2017: Justine Smith

Best Films of 2018: Steve Erickson: GCN
Top 10 Films of 2018: Ed Gonzalez
Top Films of 2018: Quietus

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
Passages Ira Sachs
Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Galleons Rick Barot
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
XXX Danny Brown

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