Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Keith Phipps: The Reveal: The Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The 50 Best Albums Of 2025: Stereogum
Favorite Albums of 2025: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
Top 55 Albums of 2025: Brooklyn Vegan
Top 30 Albums of 2025: Jordan Cronk

20 Best Albums of 2025: Glide
My Favorite Albums of 2025: Kelsie Herzog: The Yellow Button
The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Keith Phipps · The Reveal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2023 John Waters · New York · Vulture
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Movies of 2025 Nicole Brenez · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Gen V
A Complete Unknown James Mangold
Sirens
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
Mob Psycho 100
The Death of Stalin Armando Iannucci
The Sky Socialist: Environs and Out-Takes Ken Jacobs
XXX Danny Brown
Silo
Disobedience Sebastián Lelio
Cunningham Bird Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird
Deep State Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Why Q Needs U Danny Bate

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