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
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Equus Asinus
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Crack Magazine
Equus Caballus
1. 50 Best Albums of 2025: Exclaim
2. Albums of 2025: Gorilla vs. Bear
- The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine
Untourable Album
Oncle Jazz
1. Favorite Albums of 2019: Gorilla vs. Bear
Tailwhip
1. 62 Favorite Albums of 2017: Gorilla vs. Bear

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Dublin Literary Award

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
XXX Danny Brown
Holy Motors Leos Carax
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan

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