Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
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Albums of the Year 2015: Clash
Top 100 Albums of 2015: Quietus

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Favorite 50 Albums of 2013 Tiny Mix Tapes
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2018 Tiny Mix Tapes
50 Favorite Music Releases of 2017 Tiny Mix Tapes
21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016 Tiny Mix Tapes
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 Tiny Mix Tapes
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014 Tiny Mix Tapes
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015 Tiny Mix Tapes
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Favorite 50 Albums of 2011 Tiny Mix Tapes
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Rakshak Bloodywood
Born to Die Lana Del Rey
Petite Maman Céline Sciamma
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
The Last Days of Budapest Adam LeBor
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Fin John Talabot
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin

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