Year-End Lists

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Top 20 Albums of 2015: Resident Advisor

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

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The Florida Project Sean Baker
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
Twinless James Sweeney
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Getting Killed Geese
American Prison Shane Bauer
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Long Walk Francis Lawrence
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski

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