Year-End Lists

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Chin up Buttercup
1. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Our Culture
Future Politics
1. 100 Favourite Albums of 2017: Drowned in Sound
2. Top 100 Albums of 2017: Under the Radar
Feel It Break

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Sinners Ryan Coogler
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Weapons Zach Cregger
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Pillion Harry Lighton
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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