Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Top 100 Albums of 2016: Under the Radar

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The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

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Clean Slate
Idlewild Idlewild
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Sly Thom Zimny
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Liars Sarah Manguso
The Sunshine Place
Francesca David Murray Quartet
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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