Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Central City
1. The Best Albums of 2023: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
Just Be Free
1. Top 40 Albums of 2014: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions

Trending Lists

Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
Passages Ira Sachs
Sun Cat Power
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Fatigue L'Rain
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Collapsed in Sunbeams Arlo Parks
-io Circuit Des Yeux
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith

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