Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Wild Loneliness

by Superchunk

Lists

The Best Albums of 2022: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
Dean's List 2022: Robert Christgau

2022 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard
The 25 Best Albums of 2022: Esquire

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Territory of Light Yuko Tsushima
Let's Rock The Black Keys
Middle Jesse Welles
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Richard Jewell Clint Eastwood
Eternity, In Your Arms Creeper
Channel Orange Frank Ocean
Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Brat Charli XCX
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade

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