Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Goodbye to Language

by Daniel Lanois

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100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time

Trending Works

Alpha Julia Ducournau
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
The Outrun Nora Fingscheidt
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
The Pitt
I Swear Kirk Jones
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Frontrunner Frontperson
The Substance Coralie Fargeat
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Sinners Ryan Coogler
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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