Year-End Lists

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2012 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

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The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Movies of 2011 Dana Stevens · Slate
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

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One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Civil War Alex Garland
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
From Ground Zero
Looper Rian Johnson
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Beginners Mike Mills
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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