Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Albums of 2025: Gorilla vs. Bear
The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Our Culture

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

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
15 Best Novels of 2019 Electric Lit
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Poetry of 2019 Library Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2011 A.O. Scott · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Sirens
Gen V
A Complete Unknown James Mangold
XXX Danny Brown
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
NDN Coping Mechanisms Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
Deep State Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
Mob Psycho 100
Cunningham Bird Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird
Silo
Disobedience Sebastián Lelio
If Not To Give A Fantasy kilbourne
The Death of Stalin Armando Iannucci

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