Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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pure luxury
1. Top 100 Albums of 2020: Under the Radar
Infinite Summer
1. Albums of the Year 2016: Clash
2. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Under the Radar

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
10 Best Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite Books of 2019 Smithsonian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Lowdown
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Common Side Effects
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
American Eden Victoria Johnson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
American Prison Shane Bauer

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