Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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1. Dean's List 2024: Robert Christgau
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1. The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters
Eat Pray Thug
1. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
- 89 Favorite Albums of 2015: Sasha Frere-Jones
Wild Water Kingdom
1. Top 102 Albums of 2012: Robert Christgau: Barnes & Noble Review
Nehru Jackets
1. 50 Best Albums of 2012: Spin
- 40 Best Albums of 2012: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Clean Slate
Sly Thom Zimny
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas

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