Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2024
Jon Caramanica: New York Times: Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2022
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The Bestiary

by Castle Rat

Appears on three lists

Top 40 Albums of 2025: Decibel
The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Kerrang!

Best Albums of 2025: AllMusic

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2024 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Embedded: Alternate Realities
The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still Hot Mulligan
Jonathan Swift Leo Damrosch
A Whole Other Country
The Holdovers Alexander Payne
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
Snap Judgment: A Tiny Plot
Chameleon: The Michigan Plot
The Harbingers
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet
Laplace's Witch Takashi Miike
Blackstar David Bowie

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