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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Top 100 Albums of 2025: Under the Radar
The Best Albums of 2025: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
Best Albums of 2025: Northern Transmissions
The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters

The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Rakshak Bloodywood
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Connie Live Low Cut Connie

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