Year-End Lists

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
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Favorite Albums of 2025: Grace Robins-Somerville
Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2025: Under the Radar
The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib

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The Best Films of 2025 Keith Phipps · The Reveal
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Poetry of 2019 Library Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2011 A.O. Scott · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

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Tori and Lokita Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Disobedience Sebastián Lelio
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It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
XXX Danny Brown
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Mob Psycho 100
Gen V
The Death of Stalin Armando Iannucci
Sirens
Deep State Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
Cunningham Bird Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird
A Complete Unknown James Mangold

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