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
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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A Good Woman is Hard to Find
1. Top 25 Albums of 2011: Pinpoint Music
- Favorite Albums of 2011: Metromix

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2019 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Past Lives Celine Song
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Post Steven Spielberg
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Heavy Metal Cameron Winter
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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