Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Chasing the Phantom

by Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat

Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2022: The Wire

The Best Music of 2022: Jennifer Lucy Allan: Quietus
2022 in Music: Sasha Frere-Jones
Our Favorite Albums, 2022: Tone Glow

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Diamond Eyes Deftones
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Sly Thom Zimny
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Clean Slate
The Sunshine Place
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou

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