Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Top 50 Albums of 2025: The Wire
Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025: Ryan Swen
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1. The Alternative: Best 50 Releases of 2024
This Place You Know
1. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 50 Albums of 2021
2. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2021

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Babygirl Halina Reijn
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Weapons Zach Cregger
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
Truly, Madly Stephen Galloway

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