Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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by Loyle Carner

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Niall Byrne: Nialler9
Albums of the Year 2025: Clash
The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Weapons Zach Cregger
Shakedown Double Virgo
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Resurrection Bi Gan
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh

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