Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Alan Sepinwall: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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75 Best Albums of 2023: Uncut

The 60 Best Albums of 2023: Josh Terry

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The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
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 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Mt. Marci Roc Marciano
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
That Was Something Dan Callahan
Des fantômes Faune
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Aux Pieds de la Nuit Nyx Nott
XXX Danny Brown
I Am the Moon Tedeschi Trucks Band
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
hexed! aya

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