Year-End Lists

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
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The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Far Out
The 75 Best Albums of 2025: Mojo
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib

The Best Music of 2025: Carl Wilson: Slate

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
25 Best Films of 2018 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Bone Valley
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Beside Myself DJ Haram
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Interview with the Vampire
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
A Very English Scandal
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle

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