Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib

Best Albums of 2025: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Movie Club 2025 Slate · Movie Club
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Gladiator II Ridley Scott
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Rakshak Bloodywood
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Yes! Nadav Lapid
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
This Is the Sonics The Sonics

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