Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
MJ Franklin: Favorite Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Early Graves

Red Horse
1. Top 40 Albums of 2012: Decibel
2. 100 Favorite Metal Albums of the Decade: A.A. Dowd

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
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

Trending Works

Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
Sinners Ryan Coogler
-io Circuit Des Yeux
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Getting Killed Geese
Passages Ira Sachs
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Sinister Grift Panda Bear
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Renaissance Beyoncé

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