Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Photos Of Photos
1. Top 100 Albums of 2012: Piccadilly Records
2. 75 Favorite Albums of 2012: Quietus
Country Ways
1. Albums of 2011: Piccadilly Records

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Idlewild Idlewild
Mountainhead Jesse Armstrong
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sly Thom Zimny
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Diamond Eyes Deftones
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Francesca David Murray Quartet

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