Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Autostraddle: The Best TV Of 2025 With Lesbian, Queer Women and Trans Characters
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The Top 30 Albums of 2020: Jordan Cronk
Top 50 Albums of 2020: Beats Per Minute
The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Slant

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Movies of 2015 Paste
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best TV Of 2025 With Lesbian, Queer Women and Trans Characters Autostraddle
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Hunting Season Home Is Where
Dan's Boogie Destroyer
Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
Death Farm Carl Hauck
On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors: A Past, Present and Personal Story Rachel Hewitt
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Le Kov Gwenno
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood

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