Year-End Lists

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Everything Is Forgotten
1. 50 Best Albums of 2017: NME
2. Top 50 Albums of 2017: The Skinny
Oh Inhuman Spectacle
1. 50 Best Albums of 2015: FasterLouder

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
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 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib

Trending Works

Hallow Road Babak Anvari
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Alpha Julia Ducournau
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
False Lankum Lankum

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