Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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1. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Niall Byrne: Nialler9
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1. Albums of the Year 2017: Clash

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Getting Killed Geese
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
American Prison Shane Bauer
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Pavements Alex Ross Perry

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