Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
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The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times

Trending Works

Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Hit Man Richard Linklater
Empty Netters
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Choke Enough Oklou
Le Kov Gwenno
GNX Kendrick Lamar
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman
Fargo
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski

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