Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Craig Jenkins: New York: The Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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1. 50 Best Albums of 2021: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Albums of 2025 Craig Jenkins · New York · Vulture
40 Best Albums of 2013 Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2023 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

LOL: Last One Laughing UK
XXX Danny Brown
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Drive My Car Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Transform Me Then Into a Fish Martin Carthy
All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade Of Monsters and Men
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
False Dawn George Selgin
Li’l Quinquin Bruno Dumont
Resurrection Bi Gan

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