Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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1. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Niall Byrne: Nialler9
2. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
Neighboring Sounds Kleber Mendonça Filho
American Prison Shane Bauer
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Morning Circle Basma al-Sharif
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Love That Remains Hlynur Pálmason
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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