Year-End Lists

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IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Our Top 100 Albums of 2020: Les Inrocks

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Antidote Karen Russell
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
XXX Danny Brown
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
Audition Katie Kitamura
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay

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