Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Screen Slate: Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Appears on two lists

9 Albums of the Year 2015: Clash
89 Top 100 Albums of 2015: Quietus

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2025 Screen Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh
I’m So Fine Khadijah Queen
The Brittle Age Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Ludwig
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen
Teaches of Peaches Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer
Above Ground Clint Smith
The Year of Cat Mostafa Taghizadeh
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras
Who Cares? Alexe Poukine
The Damned Roberto Minervini
Sinners Ryan Coogler

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